DARPA Space Telescope Will Track Objects in Geostationary Orbit

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A new ground-based telescope devel-oped by the U.S. Defense Advanced Re-search Projects Agency (DARPA) is un-dergoing calibration and will soon enable wide-field views of objects in geo-stationary orbit, a Defense Department official said April 29.After nine years of development, DARPA's new Space Surveillance Tele-scope at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., began peering into deep space in February and has performed "remark-ably well" so far, Air Force Lt. Col. Travis Blake, the program's manager, said in an interview.