Space Surveillance - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Apr 01, 2011·The US space surveillance network (SSN) is a combination of optical and radar sensors used to support the Joint Space Operations Center’s (JSpOC) mission to detect, track, identify, and catalog all manmade objects orbiting the Earth. The JSpOC, located at the Vandenberg Air Forces Base, is in charge of programming the sensors, and recovering and analysing the data to compile and …