Raytheon awarded contract to develop 'Space Fence', page 1
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reply posted on 22-7-2009 @ 02:35 PM by standupamerica32
reply to post by Merlinhoot


only 30 million ya i would say cover story especially since raytheon has so many government classified projects they would have no issue with being part of a cover story


reply posted on 12-7-2011 @ 05:53 AM by newcovenant
reply to post by Merlinhoot



30 million was just start up costs I guess actual are going to run 3.5 billion. Just awarded 107 million each to Rayethon and Lockheed Martin to begin work. I think I am going to be ill...

Found this in the MSNBC News/ Cosmic Log Section today. My thoughts are...

a) It took them long enough and
b) Who approves the costs of this?

cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com...

The space-junk alerts that have been sounded on the International Space Station over the past couple of weeks highlight the need for the “Space Fence,” a next-generation system for tracking orbital debris that’s due to begin operation in 2015.

One of the alerts, on June 28, came so late that the station didn't have time to get out of the way. The six astronauts living aboard the orbital outpost had to take shelter in Russian Soyuz lifeboats while debris of unknown origin zoomed past at a distance of just 850 feet (260 meters).

Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are in competition for the Space Fence contract, and in February, the U.S. Air Force provided each company with a $107 milllion, 18-month design contract. The designs are to get a preliminary review next February, with the contract awarded a year from now. The first of three planned globe-girdling radar installations is to be in operation in 2015, and the Space Fence should be fully operational in 2020. The favored sites for the installations are in Australia, the Marshall Islands and Ascension Island.

$3.5 billion may sound like a lot to pay for an invisible fence. But when you consider that the space station alone is a $100 billion-plus investment that needs to last until at least 2020 ... well, it just seems to me that they can't build that fence fast enough.


Meanwhile we are fighting over a debt ceiling? And spending on Medicare and SS?
Who is kidding who here?

Is this 3.5 billion coming from a slush fund somewhere?
Do you remember anyone mentioning this was the plan and the budget?
Show me the money?
Here is the money. These are our taxes.
Meanwhile what we are probably actually buying from Lockheed and Rayethon is nothing...

The Emperors New Clothes.
edit on 12-7-2011 by newcovenant because: (no reason given)

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