23-03-2013, 00:07
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Pentagon: No Evidence Chinese Debris Damaged Russian Sat
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article..._p31-561065.xml
“There is no conclusive evidence to support that a piece of a Chinese Fengyun-1C debris, or any other piece of tracked debris, was the cause of the event,” says Lt. Col. Monica Matoush, a Defense Department spokeswoman. The Joint Space Operations Center (JSPOC) maintains a catalog of 23,000 objects in orbit, including satellites and debris roughly 5 cm (2 in.) or larger. It “detected an event involving the Russian Blits satellite resulting in a single piece of debris in addition to the payload,” she says. The center is continuing to track the two objects.
A new Space Fence—two to three S-band radar sites for improved SSA—is slated to be fielded starting in 2015 at the earliest; the Air Force took over the program from the Navy in 2004. And in 2010 the Air Force lofted the Space Based Space Surveillance electro-optical satellite designed specifically to spy on other orbiting satellites, principally in the crowded geosynchronous belt.
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