{"id":82056,"date":"2012-11-16T00:08:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T16:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/u-s-to-host-space-radar-in-australia-2\/"},"modified":"2012-11-16T00:08:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T16:08:25","slug":"u-s-to-host-space-radar-in-australia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/u-s-to-host-space-radar-in-australia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to Host Space Radar in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Australia, Debris, Space Surveillance Telescope, DARPA<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 11\/14\/2012<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"152\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/8185309691_9c7c6da88d_n(1).jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>U.S. Secretary of State Leon Panetta, Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Australian Foreign Minister Robert Carr at Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth, Australia, where they made the announcements on November 14, 2012.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Travis Longmore\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The U.S. military has decided to move a C-Band radar that helps track space debris \u2013 currently located on the island of Antigua \u2013 to a new location in Australia. The radar is capable of tracking approximately 200 objects a day, making it key to protecting satellites orbiting space from threatening pieces of debris. <\/p>\n<p>The radar is expected to stay in its current location until 2014 when it will be moved to Australia\u2019s Harold E. Holt Naval Communications Station. Once relocated, it will be the first LEO space surveillance network sensor in the southern hemisphere of our planet. <\/p>\n<p>The military also announced it plans to move the Space Surveillance Telescope, an advanced optical telescope developed by DARPA, to Australia and that both countries are discussing on establishing a \u201cCombined Communications Gateway.\u201d This would give the nations better access to the Wideband Global Satellite communications satellite currently in orbit. <\/p>\n<p>The move is seen as deepening ties between the American and Australian military and as strategic for the U.S.\u2019s defense interest that have been shifting toward Asia. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Australia, Debris, Space Surveillance Telescope, DARPA Publication Date: 11\/14\/2012 U.S. Secretary of State Leon Panetta, Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Australian Foreign Minister Robert Carr at Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth, Australia, where they made the announcements on November 14, 2012. Image credit: Travis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-82056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82056"}],"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=82056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}