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DARPA telescope headed to Australia to help track space debris

DARPA's ground-based Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) may soon head to Australia. An agreement reached this week with Australia's Department of Defense will allow DARPA to take the 180,000 lb. three-mirror Mersenne-Schmidt telescope to Australia to track and catalogues space debris and objects unique to the space above that region of the world that could threaten DoD satellites.
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Australia to Host U.S. Debris-Monitoring Telescope

Australia agreed Wednesday to host a U.S. military surveillance telescope and radar designed to watch out for space junk falling to earth and monitor satellites in orbit.
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