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Article: AGENCY TARGETS SATELLITE TRACKER FUSION RESEARCHERS WITHDRAW ARTICLE SOVIET SHIP STARTS ALASKA OIL CLEANUP WINERY WORKER ASKS TO BE SENT TO U.S. FURTHERMORE ...(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- April 21, 1989
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The Air Force's effort to build a worldwide satellite- tracking network vital to the nation's defense is so plagued by mistakes, delays and cost overruns that Congress should stop paying for it, the General Accounting Office said Thursday.
The Space Defense Operations Center, located at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station in Colorado Springs, Colo., is a command and control computer system that tracks up to 10,000 objects orbiting the Earth.
Its mission is to alert Pentagon authorities to attacks on U.S. satellites and to chart evasive manuevers ...