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experiments  that  solved  the  problem  of  keeping  the  lower  atmosphere  ionized  to  sandwich
               between near-earth orbit space platforms and a conductive ground-based infrastructure. HAARP
               fulfilled every military hope and more: it altered the relationship between the ionosphere and the
               troposphere while Project Cloverleaf provided jet deliveries of conductive nanoparticles around
               the globe as smaller and mobile ionospheric heaters were built, and radar installations, towers,
               and phased-array installations proliferated.
                   On October 1, 2004, NAVSPASUR was passed from the U.S. Navy to the U.S. Air Force
               20th  Space  Control  Squadron  and  renamed  the  AN/FPS-133  Air  Force  Space  Surveillance
               System (SSS / the VHF Fence), a key component of the Space Surveillance Network (SSN).
                   In August 2013—one year before HAARP’s shutdown—the AFSSS ceased operation so it
               could be recalibrated to the frequencies and pulses of the global infrastructure of ionospheric
               heaters, radar installations, towers, NexRads, wind farms, fracking wells, etc.
                   In 2014, the Lockheed Martin SATCOM Technologies team (Lockheed Martin, Raytheon,
               AMEC, AT&T, and General Dynamics) began building a six-acre array system on the Kwajalein
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               Atoll 2,100 nautical miles southwest of Honolulu  that would replace the AFSSS with an S-
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               band  (2.2–2.3GHz)   ground-based  radar  system  of  four  hundred  or  so  units  in  service  to
               continuous space situational awareness.

                     “The  ground-based  receive  array  is  an  elegant  merger  of  a  huge  physical  structure  built  with  the  precision  of  a
                     complex  scientific  or  medical  instrument,”  said  Mike  DiBiase,  a  vice  president  and  general  manager  of  General
                     Dynamics Mission Systems. “The SATCOM Technologies-built array has the sensitivity to locate, identify and track
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                     objects as small as a softball, hundreds of miles above the Earth’s surface.”

                   A  scaled-down  version  of  the  Lockheed  Martin  Kwajalein  Atoll  next-generation  space
               surveillance system opened in 2016 in New Jersey as a “test site.” 20
                   As part of the Space Situational Awareness Group of the U.S. Air Force, the Space Based
               Space  Surveillance  (SBSS)  system  detects  and  tracks  space  objects  in  orbit  around  the  Earth
               while the previously classified Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP)
               satellites are loaded with dedicated SSN electro-optical sensors in communication with Air Force
               Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) ground stations like Schriever Air Force Base in conjunction
               with the 50th Space Wing of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) in Colorado Springs. (The
               present incarnation of GSSAP gives a whole new meaning to “neighborhood watch.”)

                     GSSAP satellites will support Joint Functional Component Command for Space (JFCC SPACE) tasking to collect
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                     space situational awareness data . . .

                   Broadly speaking, AFSPC has four missions: (1) space forces support; (2) space control; (3)
               force enhancement (weather, communications, intelligence, missile warning, navigation); and (4)
               force application. Translated, this is C4.
                   The 50th Space Wing satellite operators of the 1st Space Operations Squadron uplink C4
               calculations  for  weapons  command  from  MacDill  Air  Force  Base  (Patriot  missile  and  Iron
               Dome) and are in touch with the Kwajalein Atoll installation that feeds data to the Joint Space
               Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base and with Eglin Air Force Base Site C-6 radar
               station whose AN/FPS-85 phased-array radar runs the radar / computer processing.
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                   It is important to remember that the U.S. Air Force  was tutored by Paperclip Nazi scientists
               like Hubertus Strughold, M.D., who conducted pilot stress tests and experiments in radiobiology
               and human radiation at the School of Aviation Medicine (SAM) near Randolph Air Force Base
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