File:GEODSS Diego Garcia 2006-05-01.jpg

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Description

English: The Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System (GEODSS) facility in Southwest Asia is one of three operational sites worldwide. Specialists at the three sites track known man-made deep space objects in orbit around earth. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Master Sgt. John Rohrer)

Date

1 May 2006

Source

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Author

U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Master Sgt. John Rohrer

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Diego Garcia

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Image title	The GEODSS facility at Diego Garcia is one of three operational sites world-wide. The facility tracks known man-made deep space objects in orbit around earth.
Camera manufacturer	Kodak
Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	300 dpi
Vertical resolution	300 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS Macintosh
File change date and time	09:35, 1 May 2006
Colour space	sRGB
IIM version	2
Headline	Trackers watch for dangerous 'space junk'
Image height	4,080 px
Image width	2,868 px
Date and time of digitizing	19:24, 13 April 2006
Date metadata was last modified	04:35, 1 May 2006

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