[AZ-Observing] USAF Space Surveillance System

Secure World fact sheet:
<http://www.secureworldfoundation.org/siteadmin/images/files/file_19.pdf>

Google Maps aerial view:
<http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&q=33.108889,-112.029167&ie=UTF8&ll=33.109805,-112.02939&spn=0.060535,0.116301&z=14>

  Northrup Grumman has been awarded a $30 million contract to begin
development of an S-band replacement for the existing VHF system.  The
new system will improve resolution from about 200 mm to 40 mm (or, to
use the international system of measurements, from the size of a
basketball to the size of a pack of chewing gum :-) for objects in
near-Earth orbits.

                                -- Mike Collins --
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