DARPA Just Gave The Air Force A Telescope To Watch For Satellite Sabotage

When we look up at the stars at night, we are staring into an infinitely deep ocean, a void filled with endless layers of deeper, farther lights. Most telescopes seek the outer limits of our universe, or document celestial phenomena on the edges of human comprehension. DARPA's Space Surveillance Telescope, which the agency handed over to Air Force Space Command yesterday, is all about mapping the objects close to Earth. Its job is to plot the closest layer of space by discerning which bright objects are moving in geosynchronous orbit, and filtering out everything else. The Space Surveillance Telescope, or SST as everyone referred to it yesterday, is one of DARPA's longest-running projects. More

(Source: Popular Science - Oct 20)