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45 Federation of American Scientists, Sourcebook on the Okno Space Surveillance Site, Version of 28
September 2006, online: www.fas.org/spp/military/program/track/okno.pdf.
46 Russianforces.org, “Space surveillance,” online: http://russianforces.org/sprn.
47 Jane’s Space Directory, “e SSS Space Surveillance System,” 23 December 2003.
48 Ibid.
49 Pavel Podvig, “Strategic Defense,” Russian Strategic Forces, May 2006, online: http://russianforces.
org/eng/defense.
50 Pavel Podvig, “Early warning–Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces,” Russianforces.org, 9 February
2009, online: www.russianforces.org/sprn.
51 France-Israel Teamwork in Science, “Imminent Delivery of the French Surveillance System,”
75 France ST Special Reports, 24 August 2005, online: www.tscience.org/media/upload/
FranceST_075.pdf; Onera, “Graves Le système français de surveillance de l’espace,” 4 May 2006,
online: www.onera.fr/dprs/graves/index.php; Federation of American Scientists, A GRAVES
Sourcebook, 29 October 2006, online: www.fas.org/spp/military/program/track/graves.pdf.
52 Jacques Bouchard as quoted in France-Israel Teamwork in Science, “Imminent Delivery of the
French Surveillance System,” 75 France ST Special Reports, 24 August 2005.
53 Global Security, “German Space Agencies,” 27 April 2005, online: www.globalsecurity.org/space/
world/germany/agency.htm#ref21; W. Flury, “Agenda Item 8: Space Debris, European Space
Agency,” Presentation to the 41st session of UN Scientic and Technical Subcommittee on the
Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS), 16-27 February 2004 at 7, online: www.oosa.
unvienna.org/COPUOS/stsc/2004/presentations/ury2.ppt.
54 P. de Selding, “Europe Keeping Increasingly Capable Eye on Space Debris,” Space News, 21 April
2010, online: www.spacenews.com/civil/100421-europe-eye-orbital-debris.html.
55 Ibid.
56 European Space Agency, “Space debris: analysis and prediction,” 20 February 2009, online:
www.esa.int/esaMI/Space_Debris/SEMXP0WPXPF_0.html.
57 Ibid.
58 W. Flury, A. Massart, T. Schildknecht, U. Hugentobler, J. Kuusela, and Z. Sodnik, Searching
for Small Debris in the Geostationary Ring – Discoveries with the Zeiss 1-metre Telescope, 104 ESA
Bulletin, November 2000, online: www.esa.int/esapub/bulletin/bullet104/ury104.pdf.
59 European Space Agency, “Space debris: scanning and observing,” 19 February 2009, online:
www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Space_Debris/SEMD31WPXPF_0.html.
60 Heiner Klinkrad, “Monitoring Space–Eorts Made by European Countries,” presented at the
International Colloquium on Europe and Space Debris, sponsored by the Académie National de
l’Air et de l’Espace, Toulouse, France, 27-28 November 2002, online: www.fas.org/spp/military/
program/track/klinkrad.pdf.
61 Analysis by Brian Weeden, Technical Consultant, Secure World Foundation.
62 Xinhua, “China Reports Progress in Space Debris Research,” 14 August 2003, online:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-08/14/content_1113433.htm.
63 China Daily, “Alarm System Warns of Space Debris,” 11 August 2003.
64 People’s Daily, “China First Space Debris Monitoring Center Settles PMO,” 11 March 2005;
People’s Daily, “CAS Sets up the First Space Debris Monitoring Center in China,” 16 March 2005.
65 Global Security, “Chinese Space Facilities,” 19 October 2005, online: www.globalsecurity.org/
space/world/china/facility.htm.
66 Japan Times, “Space Debris Radar Station Operational,” 9 April 2004.
67 IADC Observation Campaigns, Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee presentation
to 43rd Session of COPUOS Science and Technology Sub-Committee, February 2006, online:
www.iadc-online.org/docs_pub/UN_Presentation_2006_nal.pdf.
68 Marc Boucher, “MDA to Provide Operations and Maintenance Support for DND Sapphire
Satellite System,” Spaceref Canada, 29 March 2011, online: http://spaceref.ca/commercial-space/
mda/mda-to-provide-operations-and-maintenance-support-for-dnd-sapphire-satellite-system.html.