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From: Allen Thomson (thomsona@flash.net)
Date: Wed Oct 13 2004 - 13:48:47 EDT

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     Story ID 04-200
     October  08, 2004
     FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    
     Navy transfers space surveillance mission to AFSPC's 20th Space Control 
    Squadron
    
     Air Force Space Command News Service
     Naval Network and Space Operations Command
    
    DAHLGREN, Va. – The Navy transferred operation of the former Naval Space 
    Surveillance System, the nation’s oldest sensor built to track satellites 
    and debris in orbit around the Earth, to the Air Force during formal 
    ceremonies here Oct. 1.
    
    The Secretary of Defense directed the Navy to transfer program management of 
    the system to the Air Force beginning in October 2003. The Air Force 
    requested that the Navy continue to operate the space surveillance sensor, 
    also known as the “Fence,” through fiscal year 2004.
    
    The newly created 20th Space Control Squadron Detachment 1 assumes operation 
    of the Fence from the Naval Network and Space Operations Command.
    
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