Re: SPACE.com article on satellite observing

From: Brian Weeden (brian.weeden@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Jun 20 2009 - 15:03:42 UTC

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    http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123010597
    http://www.santamariatimes.com/articles/2007/10/29/news/centralcoast/news03.txt
    http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1314/1
    
    Happy to provide more of an explaination if you need.
    
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    Brian Weeden
    Technical Advisor
    Secure World Foundation
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    On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 8:55 AM, <Skywayinc@aol.com> wrote:
    >
    > In my latest SPACE.com article concerning  observing artificial  satellites:
    > http://www.space.com/spacewatch/090619-how-to-find-satellites.html
    >
    > A  reader passed along the following comment to my editor:
    >
    > "Nice article but  it got one thing wrong.  US Space Command went away in
    > 2003 and  USSTRATCOM has been doing the space surveillance mission since
    > then.   And that mission is not done at Peterson but rather at Vandenberg
    > AFB
    > in  California."
    >
    > Can anyone on the list verify if this is indeed  true?
    >
    > Thanks in advance!
    > -- joe rao
    >
    
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