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   The USAF is planning to setup a sensor network between the Earth and   
   the Moon to monitor "traffic" in the region between the 2 and maybe   
   out to 1/8 mn miles beyond the moon.   
      
   The USAF intends to monitor the coming and going of primarily objects   
   created by various nations but also "unknown objects" that may be a   
   threat to primarily US national security.   
      
   As part of a recent report into "unknown objects" it's apparently   
   situation normal to see via radar and other sensors extremely high   
   speed objects -- so-called "fast movers" -- arriving from space into   
   the Earth's atmosphere. Some of these burn up and are presumably   
   meteors.  Some others appear to brake or change course in various   
   unusual ways or dive into the ocean and are likely to be something else.   
      
      
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   The Intelligence Debrief (newsletter)   
      
   Cislunar Patrol: Enhancing the US Military's Detection of Objects in Space   
      
   By Micah Hanks   
   Mar 09, 2022 01:27 pm   
      
   ...   
      
   The Cislunar Highway Patrol System   
      
   "Until now, the United States space mission extended 22,000 miles   
   above Earth," says a portion of a video recently released by the   
   US Air Force Research Laboratory.   
      
   "That was then, this is now," the video says, announcing that "The Air   
   Force Research Laboratory is extending that range by 10 times, and the   
   operations area of the United States by 1,000 times."   
      
   Enter the Cislunar Highway Patrol System (CHPS), which the USAF   
   characterizes as "a spaceflight experiment" that it says will be   
   capable of demonstrating space domain awareness capabilities in the   
   space between Earth and the Moon.   
      
   Designed by the Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate, the CHPS is   
   built to be capable of increasing the US's ability to spot and track   
   artificial objects in space that are operating at the distance between   
   the Earth and Moon, or even greater in some cases with a total range   
   of around 239,228 miles (385,000 km). Presently, most sensors in use   
   by the United States Space Force are capable of tracking satellites or   
   other space objects at distances no further than about 22,370 miles   
   (36,000 km). This means that detection with existing technologies is   
   limited to objects in geosynchronous orbit.   
      
   CHPS will greatly extend those capabilities, allowing for the   
   detection of a range of objects that could result from missions   
   carried out in space within the vicinity of the moon that may include   
   rocket bodies or other unknown objects. This, along with providing   
   updates on the position of known spacecraft operating around the Moon   
   in positions that can be difficult to monitor from Earth with existing   
   technologies.   
      
   ...   
      
   If anything, the capabilities that the CHPS will provide the Space   
   Force in the coming years say a lot about the US military's current   
   limitations in outer space, especially with relation to its ability to   
   detect unknown objects, whether they are operated by the space   
   agencies of countries like Russia or China (who have expressed plans   
   to collaborate on such a system of their own), or if they are unknown   
   objects of an entirely different kind.   
      
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   [These groups of lights seem to be fairly common.  Have never seen   
   anything like that here.  Single mostly-yellow lights. Violet flashes.   
   A couple times 2 lights moving in from opposite horizons. But not groups].   
      
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