Re: Popular Mechanics reports on declassification of TLEs

From: Charles Phillips via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:46:20 -0700 (MST)
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The Popular Mechanics article, 

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a25562991/pentagon-declassifying-space-traffic-data/

paragraph 4, says that they have declassified more than 500 objects. Didn't we see 67 declassified on Dec 5? Were there more that I didn't remember?

Charles Phillips
Spaceflight Research, LLC
Houston, Texas
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> On December 14, 2018 at 6:12 PM Brian Weeden <brian.weeden_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     This has been in work for several years, long before SPD-3. It’s part of the new SSA Sharing Strategy that was rolled out at least a couple years ago. 
> 
>     For now, they have talked about two main efforts:
>     1) Publishing TLEs for acknowledged military satellites (such as WGS, AEHF, MOUS, etc) and their associated debris objects
>     2) Moving many of the analyst satellites to the catalog
> 
>     I would assume that many of the classified / unacknowledged satellites will remain so, at least for a while longer. 
> 
>     On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 6:54 PM Charles Phillips via Seesat-l < seesat-l_at_satobs.org mailto:seesat-l_at_satobs.org > wrote:
> 
>         > > It sounds like a declassification effort has been going on, possibly motivated by that Space Policy Directive-3.
> > 
> >         Does anyone know of any public guidance on this? Any idea of what they might be thinking about declassifying? Does StratCom or the CSpOC or the 18th Satellite Control Squadron have any private (that people could talk about) or public comments on this? Might they release TLEs on some associated upper stages as has been suggested?
> > 
> >         We have several members that might be asked for comments but the Air Force has not been open to suggestions... As far as I could tell.
> > 
> >         Charles Phillips
> >         Spaceflight Research, LLC
> >         Houston, Texas
> >         713-882-4578
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