The Night Watchmen

The ground-based electro-optical deep-space surveillance telescope located at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, is capable of tracking nearly 20,000 objects in space to maintain the safety of U.S. and allied space assets and works in concert with Air Force telescopes located at Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, and Maui, Hawaii. The telescope belongs to Detachment 1, 20th Operations Group, which provides positional and photometric data on satellites and space objects orbiting the earth to the 18th Space Control Squadron and Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. David Salanitri)

PHOTO BY: Tech. Sgt. David Salanitri
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