United States military enterprises Northrop-Grumman Corporation announced on 13 may, in accordance with the United States Air Force contract, the company will build a more advanced space waste tracking system.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Northrop-Grumman said in a statement, the name of "space barrier" radar tracking system will cost $ 30 million, its purpose is to track and observe an increasing number of space junk, and still track flight of small and micro satellites.
The statement says, "space barrier" will replace the 1961 the construction of United States air force "space reconnaissance system," because the old system was inadequate to cope with increase of space junk.
Northrop-Grumman company special projects Director Ridge · Davis said, compared with the old system, the new system will be "more accurate and faster" discover, track, space junk, thus effectively prevent space orbit collision event, avoid space junk to satellite damage.
According to the company, "space barrier" location work ongoing, Australia a place has been identified as one of the three candidates, the other two are still under consideration.
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