The Space Fence is down. That's the message we get from the SatWatch site, following up on our report last month that the U.S. Air Force was poised to shut down the radar system that tracks thousands ...

But that gripe can't be made against the U.S. Air Force’s “Space Fence,” a new radar system being built to monitor action in Earth’s orbit. Later this year the Air Fore is scheduled to ...

Replacing the current VHF Air Force Space Surveillance System built in 1961, the new Space Fence will detect thousands of pieces of "space debris" as well as commercial and military satellites in ...

“We have applied radar expertise Raytheon has acquired during the past 70 years to build a Space Fence system that detects and tracks resident space objects much smaller than with the system ...

The Space Fence will replace the existing Air Force Space Surveillance System, or VHF fence, which has been in service since the early 1960s. By using radars with much higher frequency ...

The system, called Space Fence, uses solid-state S-band technology to detect and track orbiting objects in space. For example, it can track commercial and military satellites, empty rocket boosters, ...

Image courtesy of Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin is putting finishing touches on the Space Fence, a ground-based system that shoots a radar fan 22,000 miles into space to detect orbiting space ...

March 30 (UPI) --A radar system known as Space Fence, which can track material in space as small as 10 centimeters, is fully operational, the U.S. Space Force announced. Using enhanced S-band ...

vice president of advanced systems at Lockheed Martin, the company creating the Space Fence. “They just wanted to figure out if something was flying over the continental U.S.” Today ...

The Space Fence is the second system designed to track artificial satellites, space debris, and other objects in Earth’s orbit. Development of the Space Fence began in 2014 with an initial ...

The Space Surveillance System was deactivated several years ago as part of automatic cuts in federal spending. In the interim, the space surveillance radar at Eglin has been an integral part of ...

Syracuse, NY-- The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $30 million contract to begin concept development for Space Fence, a system of land-based S-Band radars and supporting operations ...