{"id":76476,"date":"2014-08-26T21:19:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T13:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martin-electro-optics-systems-to-build-space-debris-observatory\/"},"modified":"2014-08-26T21:19:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T13:19:59","slug":"lockheed-martin-electro-optics-systems-to-build-space-debris-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martin-electro-optics-systems-to-build-space-debris-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin, Electro Optics Systems to Build Space Debris Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 08-26-2014] <b>Lockheed Martin <\/b>and <b>Electro Optics Systems <\/b>have agreed to build a space object tracking facility in Western Australia. Through the use of both lasers and sensitive, telescope-like optical systems, the companies plan to use the site for a combination of government and commercial customers.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin anticipates electro-optical technologies will effectively complement the U.S. <b>Air Force\u2019s<\/b> Space Fence, which the company has a $914.7 million five-year contract. The space fence, once complete, is expected to track approximately 200,000 objects, improving Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and reducing the risk of collisions.<\/p>\n<p>The new joint Lockheed Martin-Electro Optics Systems facility will determine the composition, velocity and spin-rate of objects in space. Electro-optical technologies have the ability to hone in on specific objects to provide more detail than what can be achieved solely with radar-based systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 08-26-2014] Lockheed Martin and Electro Optics Systems have agreed to build a space object tracking facility in Western Australia. Through the use of both lasers and sensitive, telescope-like optical systems, the companies plan to use the site for a combination of government and commercial customers. Lockheed Martin anticipates electro-optical technologies will effectively complement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}