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Shelton Orders Shutdown of Space Fence (critical decades-old missile defense system axed!)
Space News ^ | 8/6/13 | Mike Gruss

Posted on 08/10/2013 3:12:53 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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Oh, perfect. Let's just drop our guard completely.
1 posted on 08/10/2013 3:12:53 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Absolute best first step in any conflict:

Blind your opponent.

US: -1
2 posted on 08/10/2013 3:17:12 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Phony President)
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NWO puppet 0bama is doing a rather seamless job of shutting down our capabilities, and our superpower status along with it in a relatively short period of time. 200+ years of progress deconstructed by one Marxist Muslim gay illegal alien agent of the NWO with a phony biography.


3 posted on 08/10/2013 3:18:38 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
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To: LibWhacker

Oh great...now were going to be flooded with illegal aliens from zeta reticuli.


4 posted on 08/10/2013 3:21:02 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: LibWhacker

Missile defense agency and the Air Force operate other radars that also pick up everything in orbit. Hate to see the redundancy lost, but we are far from blind.


5 posted on 08/10/2013 3:23:43 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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If I were Kim Jong Un, I’d schedule a satellite launch the day after they finally pull the plug, and send it on a low orbit that passes over the White House and Lake Kickapoo Texas.


6 posted on 08/10/2013 3:26:34 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Joe 6-pack
Obviously the plan from the beginning!


7 posted on 08/10/2013 3:27:39 PM PDT by Errant
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To: LibWhacker

My guess is that his is redundant capability. There are lots of ground based sensors that track satellites and space junk.


8 posted on 08/10/2013 3:28:42 PM PDT by rbg81
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Fine by me. Take this expenditure out of the defense budget and let Congress vote on whether or not to fund it.


9 posted on 08/10/2013 3:30:06 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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Hold on now. I agree about his marxist/gay/moslem/NWO/illegal alien/puppet status.

But that “seamless job” thing would imply work.

I’ve seen nothing that indicates he works.


10 posted on 08/10/2013 3:33:44 PM PDT by logitech (It is time.)
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To: LibWhacker

How much is the rent?


11 posted on 08/10/2013 3:37:46 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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“The Space Fence is very important as it gives an ‘uncued tracking’ capability,” Weeden said. “Because it’s constantly transmitting, it can detect objects without being tasked to do so. There are some other sensors in the network that can do uncued tracking to some degree, but the Space Fence is rather unique in the sheer size of the detection coverage it has.”

We're so nice! We're twice as polite as Days Inn.

For whatever is coming, we'll not only leave the light on for ya, we'll leave the windows unlocked and the doors wide open.

Maybe God will protect us, because apparently obama and his sequester just said "No."

12 posted on 08/10/2013 3:38:15 PM PDT by GBA (Our obamanation: Romans 1:18-32)
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Marxist Muslim gay illegal alien agent of the NWO with a phony biography and a fake nobel peace prize


13 posted on 08/10/2013 3:43:18 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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Space Fence is unique, and imho, every cost effective. Other sensors can refine tracks on tasked satellites, but Space Fence (in which I have no personal stake) is a one off. As it said, 40% of all observations come from one relatively inexpensive system, that is already up and running. I’m baffled.


14 posted on 08/10/2013 3:44:24 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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Marxist Muslim gay illegal alien agent of the NWO with a phony biography and a fake nobel peace prize

Hmmmm...you know, that sounds crazy enough...it just might work!

15 posted on 08/10/2013 3:53:34 PM PDT by GBA (Our obamanation: Romans 1:18-32)
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HEY FREE REPUBLIC... OBAMA JUST GAVE THE SYRIANS 192 MILLION DOLLARS FOR “HUMANITARIAN AID”. YEAH LIKE WE BELIEVE THAT GARBAGE! NO MONEY FOR FUNDING THIS DEFENSIVE SYSTEM TO MONITOR SATELLITES AND DEFENSIVE SPACE BASED WEAPONS AND ORBITING DEBRIS BUT WE HAVE ANOTHER COOL 192 MILLION DOLLARS TO GIVE TO AL QAEDA AND THE MB! What an great American that obama is. /S/S/S/S/S/S/S/S/S/S/S


16 posted on 08/10/2013 4:06:51 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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17 posted on 08/10/2013 4:08:14 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: Darteaus94025; Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America; Joe 6-pack; ThunderSleeps; SpaceBar; Errant; rbg81; ...
Interesting YouTube video put out by Lockheed Martin touting their new Space Fence. Looks pretty cool. But it's not scheduled to go online until 2017, and that date can be delayed by years. Meantime, we're flying blind.

True, there is some redundancy. But the old Space Fence does a lot that no other system can. And it's cheap. It doesn't simply protect us from stray chunks of debris. Our enemies could hide offensive elements in those extensive debris fields. My understanding is that only a space fence can keep track of it all.

Another twist... The facility they're shutting down in October provides coverage for the Southern-tier states; i.e., largely Republican states. Oh, that muslim pos in the White House is vicious.

18 posted on 08/10/2013 4:10:22 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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My Dad, Roger Easton, designed the Space Fence. It helped inspire GPS. Grrrr


19 posted on 08/10/2013 4:23:22 PM PDT by Richard from IL
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Fine by me. Take this expenditure out of the defense budget....

They need the money for Obama's unfunded ad ad nauseam campaigning and his vacays.

20 posted on 08/10/2013 4:24:35 PM PDT by llevrok (“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words,” Orwell wrote)
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