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AT: Surveillance – Non-Inherent – ORSORS solves—reconnaissance satellites deliver fast warfighting info, solves surveillance readiness Space.com (6/28, http://www.space.com/12094-nasa-rocket-launch-military-satellite-preview-ors-1.html, accessed 7-5-11, CH) The United States Air Force is planning to launch a new tactical reconnaissance satellite this evening to help deliver fast, accurate information to warfighters on the ground. The satellite, called ORS-1, is slated to blast off atop a Minotaur 1 rocket at 8:28 p.m. EDT (0028 GMT) from a NASA launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility and Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. The spacecraft is outfitted with a customized version of the SYERS-2 sensor — advanced snooping gear that’s also carried by the Air Force’s high-flying U-2 spy planes. The reconnaissance satellite will be the first for the Air Force’s Operational Readiness Space (ORS) office, which was created in 2007. It costs a reported $226 million, according to Spaceflight Now. “The inaugural flight of the ORS spacecraft is historic, and even more important is the significant capability it will provide to the warfighter in the next year,” said ORS director Peter Wegner in a statement. If the sunset rocket launch goes off as planned tonight, skywatchers in much of the eastern United States could get quite a show. However, Mother Nature may not cooperate; forecasts call for scattered thunderstorms around the launch site, with only a 30 percent chance of good weather, NASA Wallops officials have said. Battlefield recon satellite The new satellite’s SYERS-2 is the Air Force’s most advanced intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensor, according to the Goodrich Corporation, which built it and integrated it into the satellite. The sensor provides high-resolution imagery day and night, and it can peer through haze and light fog. Once ORS-1 is in orbit, it will undergo a 30-day checkout, validation and calibration procedure, Air Force officials said. Then it will begin its reconnaissance mission, which should last one to two years. The satellite will beam information gathered by the modified SYERS-2 sensor down to Earth, where analysts will take a look and send relevant data along to the military’s Central Command for nearly real-time use by warfighters. Small, fast satellites AT: Surveillance – Non-Inherent – ReconnaissanceReconnaissance satellites solve intel and international cooperation Hastedt 10 (Glenn, Prof Political Sciences @ James Madison University, 10/7, NASA, http://history.nasa.gov/sp4801-chapter19.pdf, accessed 7-5-11, CH) Reconnaissance satellites have contributed in a number of ways to the changing face of intelligence within the national security policy arena. Their influence has been considered not so much as an isolated variable forcing change, but as one force of many. This is because the national security policy arena into which reconnaissance satellites entered already existed as a stream of activity. Reconnaissance satellites entered this stream and helped change it. The impact of reconnaissance satellites on intelligence and national security policy does not end because the cold war is over. They will continue to shape intelligence and national security policy as this policy arena moves further downstream. in the cold war period, two particular areas of impact were, first, on the changing fortunes of the CIA within the intelligence community, and second, on the development of a framework for managing superpower cold war relations. From the outset, the CIA faced challenges in establishing a position of leadership within the intelligence community. The advent of reconnaissance satellites, combined with the CIA’s own failings in the areas of covert action and human espionage, helped bring into existence an intelligence community whose key organizational players lay beyond its effective control and whose key intelligence collection methodologies were rooted in science and technology. The resulting situation proved to be a mixed blessing. On one hand, reconnaissance satellites produced unprecedented insight into the national security policies of the Soviet Union. On the other hand, collection silos arose, human intelligence capabilities declined, costs rose dramatically, and managerial problems festered. Reconnaissance satellites also helped usher in an era of conflict management between the united States and Soviet Union. They were instrumental in transforming an area of competition into one of conflict management by providing each side with a largely unilateral means of verifying the behavior of the other. Students of international relations have long commented that it is the absence of trust and the fear of cheating that makes cooperation so difficult in world politics. Reconnaissance satellites showed that, with proper motivation, technology can provide a mechanism allowing states to cooperate in the absence of trust. The changed atmosphere of the Cold War during the Reagan administration also showed the limits of technology as a proxy for trust. Surveillance satellites solve intelligence Global Research 10 (10/13, http://ce399.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/the-threat-of-satellite-surveillance-global-research-131010/, accessed 7-5-11, CH) Unknown to most of the world, satellites can perform astonishing and often menacing feats. This should come as no surprise when one reflects on the massive effort poured into satellite technology since the Soviet satellite Sputnik, launched in 1957, caused panic in the U.S. A spy satellite can monitor a person’s every movement, even when the “target” is indoors or deep in the interior of a building or traveling rapidly down the highway in a car, in any kind of weather (cloudy, rainy, stormy). There is no place to hide on the face of the earth. It takes just three satellites to blanket the world with detection capacity. Besides tracking a person’s every action and relaying the data to a computer screen on earth, amazing powers of satellites include reading a person’s mind, monitoring conversations, manipulating electronic instruments and physically assaulting someone with a laser beam. Remote reading of someone’s mind through satellite technology is quite bizarre, yet it is being done; it is a reality at present, not a chimera from a futuristic dystopia! To those who might disbelieve my description of satellite surveillance, I’d simply cite a tried-and-true Roman proverb: Time reveals all things (tempus omnia revelat). Surveillance satellite system in development now Clark 9 (Colin, staff, DoD Buzz, 4/7, http://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/04/07/president-approves-new-satellite-system/, accessed 7-7-11, CH) After more than a decade of false starts by the intelligence community, President Barack Obama has approved a new constellation of highly capable electro-optical surveillance satellites. “When it comes to supporting our military forces and the safety of Americans, we cannot afford any gaps in collection,” Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said in a press statement. “We are living with the consequences of past mistakes in acquisition strategy, and we cannot afford to do so again. We’ve studied this issue, know the right course, and need to move forward now.” The National Reconnaissance Office will manage acquisition of the system and operate the new constellation. Lockheed Martin will build the systems. They will be roughly similar in capabilities to the existing spy satellite constellation, a senior intelligence official told reporters Tuesday evening. The new satellites should launch within the next decade Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. 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