(02-16-2025, 06:20 AM)Ninurta Wrote: I'm all for selling California off to Denmark. It would rid the US of an economic and political drain. Can we get that done yesterday?

What the hell is "avocado toast"? See? Cali is already more foreign than it is American! I've always said that furriners think the damndest things is "food".

As I recall, John Titor claimed that in his future, all power was local, and many folks ran their own "microreactors" for power... but I think those reactors were fusion reactors.

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Quote:Defending the Seabed: The British Auxiliary Proteus

She is tasked with helping counter the growing threat to vital undersea cables, pipelines, and underwater infrastructure.

The Proteus began life as the commercial support ship MV Topaz Tangaroa, which was designed to operate submersibles and assist with inspections, construction, and maintenance duties in the offshore oil rig industry. She was built in 2019 at the Vard Tulcea shipyard in Romania and fitted out at Vard’s Brattvaag shipyard in Norway. Purchased by the UK Ministry of Defense in early 2023 for £70 million, she was subsequently converted and refurbished at the Cammell Laird Birkenhead shipyard. Renamed the Proteus after the mythical Greek sea god who worked as a nautical shepherd, she officially entered service 10 October 2023 in a ceremony held on the River Thames in London.

The RFA is a merchant navy organization providing civilian-crewed ships that deliver logistic and operational support to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. In RFA service, the Proteus has been given a new life, helping the Royal Navy and NATO allies protect critical underwater infrastructure. Able to serve as a mothership for a wide array of remotely operated and autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), the Proteus also functions as a floating testbed for new technologies. Her cutting-edge systems, including a multibeam echo sounder and UUVs, help map and monitor the seabed, enhancing the ability to identify and investigate any suspicious irregularities in critical undersea infrastructure.

(02-20-2025, 04:57 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Feb 19, 1942: the Clemson-class destroyer USS Peary (DD-226) was sunk by Japanese aircraft at Darwin, Australia. A nearby seaman in the British Merchant Service reported witnessing a U.S. sailor perform one of the bravest acts that he had seen or read in all his life.

Quote:... on Good Friday I awoke to find the sun shining brightly for the first time in this house: the little garden was radiant with green, the birds sang, and at last I could sit on the roof and enjoy the long-yearned-for peace with its message of promise. Full of this sentiment, I suddenly remembered that the day was Good Friday, and I called to mind the significance this omen had already once assumed for me when I was reading Wolfram's Parzival. Since the sojourn in Marienbad [in the summer of 1845], where I had conceived Die Meistersinger and Lohengrin, I had never occupied myself again with that poem; now its noble possibilities struck me with overwhelming force, and out of my thoughts about Good Friday I rapidly conceived a whole drama, of which I made a rough sketch with a few dashes of the pen, dividing the whole into three acts.

Act 2, Scene 1:

Klingsor's castle and enchanted garden. Waking her from her sleep, Klingsor conjures up Kundry, now transformed into an incredibly alluring woman. He calls her by many names: First Sorceress (Urteufelin), Hell's Rose (Höllenrose), Herodias, Gundryggia and, lastly, Kundry. She mocks his self-castrated condition but cannot resist his power. He resolves to send her to seduce Parsifal and ruin him as she ruined Amfortas before.

Quote:Frank Woolworth created a household name and a $65 million fortune through his five-and-ten-cent stores, enabling him to pay $13 million in cash to erect the Woolworth Building in Manhattan which on completion (1913) was the world's tallest building. Though his business is now continued as 'Foot Locker,' his name came to the fore again when his 18,000-square foot Manhattan townhouse went on the market in 2011 for a record $90 million. Built in the same year as his townhouse, Winfield Hall was his dream home and the most opulent expression of both his wealth, and extraordinary character.

In 1914, Woolworth purchased the 16.5 acre Humphreys Estate on Long Island. Two years later, an unexplained fire destroyed the original mansion. Raising suspicious eyebrows, it just so happened that Woolworth already had plans for a new 57-room mansion to be built on the site. He wasted no time in hiring the architect of the original house, Charles P.H. Gilbert (1861-1952), to start work on his new home that was completed within a staggering six months - the builders literally worked day and night.

Woolworth had traced his ancestry back to Cambridgeshire in England and embracing his British roots he gave his very English middle name to his new home - "Winfield Hall". The design of the mansion is a mix of elements, though significant parts of the exterior and the interior are directly influenced by Le Petit Trianon at Versailles. It was built entirely of imported marble and limestone, and construction costs ran to an eye-popping $9 million, which today would be equivalent to about $200 million.

Frank Woolworth, aka "Emperor Napoleon"

As Woolworth increased in age, so did his interest in the occult, time travel, and his own self-belief that he was in fact the living reincarnation of Napoleon Bonaparte. This obsession with Napoleon is apparent from the moment the estate is entered from Crescent Beach Road - via a marble replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Monica Randall wrote:

Quote:    A long circular drive takes you past glades of ancient trees, a massive carriage house and a wide panorama of Roman statuary. A life-size statue of King Neptune stands in a pool amid pink-colored stone horses and dolphins, where Tiffany gold and blue mosaic tiles set off an arched grotto that was lit with amber-hued lights. Winfield stood to the north where at one time dozens of life-size Greek and Roman gods on marble pedestals guarded the long drive.

To sum up the magnificence of the mansion's interior in a few paragraphs verges on the impossible. But, in an attempt to describe its opulence, the overwhelming theme of the decor is majestically Napoleonic, mixed with Italian Renaissance.

The Emperor's Palace, aka "The House of Horrors"

In the entrance hall - under a carved ceiling of 14k gold leaf trimmed in blue - the floor, walls, fireplace, and staircase are all made of varying hues of marble. The staircase was crafted entirely of pink marble and cost $2 million alone. This otherwise elegant room has one other stand out feature: the bizarre coat-of-arms designed by Woolworth himself that are carved into the stone above the fireplace. They depict him sporting an empirical plumed helmet while beneath is his wife, her face entirely covered by an iron mask, showing only the pearl necklace he bought her after he made his first million. On the shield beneath them are the faces of their three daughters... make of that what you will.

Quote:The reception rooms include the gold Music Room in the west wing that features an Aeolian pipe organ; the Dining Room finished in the English Georgian style; the gold Ballroom that is set off with an enormous crystal chandelier; the Gothic Library filled with volume-upon-volume on Egyptian mythology, history, and occult rituals; and, the Billiard Room panelled in rich mahogany with yet another gold leaf ceiling.

Throughout the house, "mystical" motifs thrust out from every corner that can be curious and even vaguely unsettling to the unfamiliar eye. They vary from Napoleon's own empirical symbol (the bee), to those of the Egyptian occult (scarabs, serpents, cartouches etc.) that were fashionably popularized by the deposed Emperor following his victorious campaign of 1798. But, without doubt, the most striking of all the motifs are the winged effigies of Woolworth's own moustachioed face that leers down from certain ceilings. All this imagery prompted his grand-daughter to recall Winfield as the "house of horrors"!

Each of the bedrooms were styled after dominant historical periods, eg., the Ming Dynasty, Elizabethan, Louis XIV, Marie-Antoinette, Edwardian rooms etc. Perhaps most intriguing is the Empress Josephine room, lived in - not by Mrs Woolworth - but by Woolworth's mistress. This room was connected by a probably-not-so-secret passage to Woolworth's own bed chambers and was in stark contrast to his wife's spartan bedroom with its single bed and solitary rocking chair! Another bedroom worthy of mention is the Marie-Antoinette room that always remains locked. Its said that crying is often heard within, rumored to be the ghost of Woolworth's daughter, Edna, who committed suicide in 1917.

Lastly, to add to its mystique, Winfield hides secret rooms eg., the one accessed through a trapdoor in the ceiling of the ballroom. There are also tunnels and hidden passages reminiscent of Napoleon's brother's chateau in New Jersey, Point Breeze. Despite the elaborate Egyptian tomb in which Woolworth would seem to be buried, some believe he is in fact entombed in a sarcophagus in one of the secret rooms under Winfield.

The Emperor at Home

Woolworth's own bedroom suite was an identical copy of Napoleon's at Château de Malmaison. The bath was made of pink marble and even the bed he slept in had once belonged to the Emperor - a magnificent roll-top affair with a canopy of 14k gold leaf.

Woolworth scoured the world for relics that had belonged to his hero/former self. The 75-servants he employed here got quite used to the sight of him either walking around in one of the many uniforms (complete with bicorne hat) he'd collected that had been worn by the great General himself; or, seeing him in deep concentration for long periods at a time slouched in the Emperor's gold and red velvet throne!

The Outbuildings at Winfield further reflected Woolworth's eccentricities and excesses: there was a marble tea house (copied from Le Petit Trianon), an 18-car garage (occupying 16,000 square feet that has since been made habitable) and two greenhouses. There is a private beach for bathing, a 9-hole golf course, and the extensive formal gardens are spread over various terraces modelled after those at the Galleria Borghese in Rome. These gardens feature a large collection of statues laid out in various formats, such as that of Neptune flanked by a pair of pink marble horses in one of the ponds.

As a footnote to everything described, its worth repeating - and almost inconceivable to imagine - that the house as well as the gardens were completed in a mere six months... maybe there was something to Woolworth's fascination with time travel after all!

Better the Devil you Know...

Woolworth died in his Napoleonic bedroom at Winfield Hall in 1919. He pumped a lot of time and money into unlocking the secrets of time travel, but whether that paid off - as far as I am aware - is yet to be seen. Perhaps unsurprisingly, his widow did not choose to live out the rest of her days here, but she wasn't so desperate to be rid of it that she couldn't push a hard bargain. In 1921, Walter Chrysler, founder of the Chrysler Corporation, offered the Woolworth heirs $800,000 for the estate, but they refused to sell it for a dime less than $850,000.

Woolworth may have been delighted by his own moustachioed effigies, but despite the most silver-tongued real estate agents placed on the job, it was not working for any prospective buyers. In 1925, Winfield was finally put up for auction. Even then, only 50 people came and bids started at a mere $100,000. It was sold for $395,000, to an agent who to the surprise of all had been bidding on behalf of Charles McCann, the husband of Woolworth's eldest daughter, Helena, then resident at nearby Sunken Orchard.

"The Glamour Manor" - Modelling, Charm, Secretarial Skills... & Seances

The widowed Mrs Woolworth, her youngest daughter, Jessie May Woolworth (1886-1971) and Jessie's husband, James Paul Donahue (1887-1931) used the house sporadically until 1929, when the McCanns sold it to Julia Louise Parham (1882-1980), the wife of Richard Samuel Reynolds, Sr. (1881-1955), the inventor of Reynolds Wrap aluminium foil.

In 1963, the by-then widowed Mrs Reynolds sold her home to the entrepreneurial Grace Downs (1907-1984) who opened the house as a school for girls wishing to learn modelling, charm, and secretarial skills, with perhaps less emphasis on the last subject! As thirty girls moved in (prompting its new nickname, "the glamour manor"), Woolworth's treasures that had to date remained in tact were now moved into one of the greenhouses.

The girls naturally began to explore the secret rooms and passages and perhaps affected by their unusual surroundings they began to hold seances. At the same time, rumors of strange goings-on at the house began to be reported such as unexplained whispering in empty rooms, music bursting forth from the pipe organ, and tragically the deaths of several students "under bizarre circumstances". In 1975, this prompted the school to close and what remained of Woolworth's antiques and Napoleonic artefacts were sold.

Monica Randall and "Andre Von Brunner," aka Richard Markoll

Woolworth's remaining treasure was sold here at auction on November 29, 1975. It was then that Martin T. Carey and Richard Markoll met and decided to team up, buying Winfield as an investment. Carey was "the silent partner" and already owned property at Lloyd's Harbor as well as Seaview Terrace in Newport. Aside from the price tag, the taxes alone on Winfield amounted to $62,000 a year. In her book on Winfield, Monica Randall refers to Markoll - the man she became romantically involved with - as "Andre Von Brunner". They lived here from 1975, but in 1979 Markoll apparently disappeared and Randall left the day before the estate was seized, owing $137,227 in back taxes.

Martin T. Carey

It's unclear exactly what happened after 1978, but Carey then became the sole owner and in the following year (1979) Winfield was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In her book, Randall writes that: "Things seemed to take a turn when a large corporation stepped in at the last moment to lease the property, saving the house from possible demolition". From the 1980s up until 1995, Carey leased the house to the Pall Corporation, demolishing the marble swimming pool and tennis court in favor of a parking lot.

After 1995, it was leased for a further two or three years for use as a learning center for seeing-eye dogs. By 2006, Kerriann Flanagan Brosky described it as, "having been abandoned for several years" while researching her book Haunted Long Island. But, on a visit there she was surprised to run into Mr Carey (then in his eighties) in his work clothes who was, "painstakingly restoring the building with only five men". Winfield had been on-and-off the market for several years, most recently in 2008, for $19.5 million. After sitting on the market for two years (perhaps something to do with its hidden cost of $257,436 in annual property taxes!) the Careys took it off the market in 2010 and leased it to HBO for the filming of the award-winning, star-studded TV mini-series Mildred Pierce.

Winfield and Seaview Terrace are without doubt two of the most richly decorated mansions to survive from the Gilded Age and the Careys have frequently been criticized for not maintaining them properly. In 2015, 99-years after its last fire, another mysterious fire broke out here which destroyed some 30% of the interior, causing millions of dollars of irreplaceable damage. Mr Carey died on June 16, 2020, "at his home in Glen Cove, N.Y."

Put your Bids In Please...

Winfield is still owned by Mrs Carey and her daughter, but according to Long Island Business News, as of October 1st 2020 they are now accepting bids on the property. Its precise state of repair will most likely only become apparent to us after a sale.

Quote:Winfield Hall: What are the mysterious secrets of F.W. Woolworth’s haunted Long Island home?

Monica Randall seems convinced that it’s not just the ghost of Woolworth that remains in Winfield. There are many secret passages, secret rooms built into the design of the place. It’s her belief that undisoved in Winfield is a replica of the King’s Chamber from the Great Pyramids, and there you’ll find the ancient Eqyptian sarcophagus he was known to have bought, and inside the man himself.

After all, it took nearly a year to build the Woolworth tomb, and during that time his corpse had to be stashed away someplace. Perhaps it just never made the final journey, and was never supposed to.

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The official record states she died from suffocation, brought on by an infection, in her room at the Plaza Hotel. A more commonly accepted story is that when she found out about yet another mistress, she donned her finest lace dress, and knocked back a fatal dose of poison.

That same night, out on Long Island, F.W. Woolworth was having a party. A storm had come up out of nowhere and a bolt of lightning came through the open window and struck the mantlepiece, the one with him and his family’s portraits. The lightning strike somehow spared the mantlepiece, except for a crack through his daughter Edna’s face.

Quote:The Cato Street Conspiracy: Murderous Intent or Police Entrapment?

Shortly afterward the Tory government, led by Lord Liverpool, made things worse by bringing in the “Six Acts”, a series of incredibly oppressive laws designed to keep the people in control. The acts did everything from limiting free speech to giving the courts greater powers to prosecute dissenters and banning free assembly.

It was under this atmosphere that a group known as the Spencean Philanthropists, led by Arthur Thistlewood and his right-hand man George Edwards formed. They had one mission: wipe out the heads of the British leadership and form their own provisional government.

On the evening of Wednesday 23 February 1820, a group of around thirty men gathered on the top floor of an old, abandoned building in Cato Street, London. They had been plotting for months and things had reached a head. It was time to carry out what Thistlewood called the “West End Job”.

Thistlewood’s plan was brutal. One of his men would knock on the front door saying he had a parcel for the homeowner. Half the gang would then force their way inside and bind all the servants, killing them if they fought back.

The other half, led by Thistlewood, would head straight to the dining room. They would then rain down grenades on the assembled ministers, finishing off any survivors with guns and knives.

One of the group, James Ings, who was a retired butcher would then get to work. Working his way around the room, he would cut off the deceased ministers’ heads ready for display on the spikes of Westminster Bridge.

With the government quite literally beheaded Thistlewood then planned on taking the King Street Barracks, the Bishop of London’s house, the Light House barracks in Gray’s Inn Lane, and the Bank of England. With the bloodshed finished the conspirators would then set up shop in Mansion House, founding their provisional government.

It was hoped that as news spread of what they had done London’s downtrodden masses would rise up and help the conspirators. They were convinced that within hours men from all over the nation would flock to join the “Committee of Public Safety.”

It never happened.

The Setup

Instead, many of the Spencean Philanthropists left the building on Cato Street in handcuffs. They had been betrayed by one of their own. Edwards, Thistlewood’s most trusted confidant, had been a police spy from the beginning.

Quote:The way Alice dealt with those horrible times is particularly inspiring. She says about the role of music: “I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope … it’s a sort of religion actually. Music is … is God. In difficult times you feel it, especially when you are suffering.” When asked by German journalists if she hated Germans, she replied: “I never hate, and I will never hate. Hatred brings only hatred.”

Alice Herz-Sommer

Quote:In his fifth-century commentary on Ezekiel’s vision of New Jerusalem, Jerome quotes the Aeneid, likening the path of salvation to a minotaur’s maze: “‘As once in lofty Crete the labyrinth is said to have had a route woven of blind walls’ . . . . So I, ente[r] the ocean of those scriptures and, so to speak, the labyrinth of God’s mysteries, of whom it is said ‘He made darkness his covert’ and ‘there are clouds in his circuit’”.

This 1705 maze (Dool-hoff), signed by the Dutch Catholic printer Claes Braau, also comes with clouded pathways, but here the way to New Jerusalem is cobbled by didactic verse. The broadsheet’s four dead-ends are burnished with spiritual gravity by its epigraphs: “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14.12) and “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise” (Ephesian 5:15). Each pathway is paved with texts that narrate vocational and moral choices at various lengths. The road dedicated to economic wealth is full of twists and turns, but ultimately leads to the same fate as the short meander through a trench describing vanity: your journey’s abrupt termination. Choosing the “wrong path” forces the puzzler to backtrack, should they want to meet the Lamb of God at the maze’s center. Luckily, there are many ways to reach salvation, such as by studying the seven liberal arts.

Dool-Hoff: A Dutch Maze with New Jerusalem at its Centre (1705)

Quote:Pieter Bruegel’s Big Fish Eat Little Fish depicts a surreal, cannibalistic feeding frenzy on the waterfront: an unfortunate turn of events for a father-son fishing trip. A fearsomely large fish has been heaved upon the beach. From its gaping mouth, as well as a gash being carved in its midsection, spill forth two torrents of seemingly ravenous marine life. On land and at sea, sizable fish flounder after their inferiors, while eels chase eels, and some become meals for an assortment of predatory mollusks. The Flemish description below this scene, which appears in Pieter van der Heyden’s 1557 engraving, puts a colloquial spin on a popular proverb: “Look son, I have long known that the big fish eat the small.” And aboard their shared boat, the boy gestures to the madness in tandem with his father, their arms perfectly framing the isolated word of Latin: ecce. Behold.

Bruegel the Elder’s Big Fish Eat Little Fish (1556)

Quote:EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AFNS) -- Just one year after signing a ground-breaking trilateral agreement, the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability partnership is completing facilities construction at the first of three sites that will host a global network of advanced ground-based sensors.

DARC is a partnership between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, designed to create an all-weather, global system to track very small objects in geosynchronous orbit to protect critical U.S. and allied satellite services. The trilateral Memorandum of Understanding was signed Sept. 27, 2023, will last 22 years, and is a practical example of what the partners can achieve when working together to enhance mutual defense capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region.

Construction of the first site, in Western Australia, was completed in December 2024, three months ahead of schedule, with mission system integration and test activities now underway.

“The collaboration between all parties for the DARC project has been outstanding and is an example of what can be done when we work with our partners on a common goal for the advancement of Space Domain Awareness across our three nations,” said Michael Hunt, assistant secretary Space Systems Branch for the Australian Department of Defence, who also serves as the Australian representative on the DARC steering committee.

Allied partnerships in space are increasingly critical given emerging threats from adversaries and pacing challengers, noted Lt. Col. Nicholas Yeung, chief of Capabilities Development for Space Systems Command’s International Affairs office.

DARC is just one of several key partnership efforts facilitated by SSC’s IA office, and it’s particularly critical as it addresses innate challenges in GEO coverage.

At 22,236 miles above the Earth, an object in geosynchronous orbit takes 24 hours to orbit the planet. This keeps the satellite “parked” in the same spot, appearing stationary to ground sensors. This makes GEO important “real estate” for several satellites, but because GEO is so far above the Earth, it’s more difficult to monitor space debris and/or adversarial actions that could potentially disrupt or deny space-based capabilities in that orbit.

Yet another challenge is that the U.S. can only cover a limited portion of the sky based on its geography, which is one of the reasons international partnerships are so important. The DARC program demonstrates how allied partnerships can overcome both technical and geographic challenges while accelerating the delivery of advanced space technology in support of combined operations.

Commodore Dave Moody, head of Space Capability for U.K. Space Command, said, “DARC leverages the geography and commitment of key partner nations to deliver persistent, comprehensive space domain awareness.”

“One year on, the talent harnessed between the nations has begun to field a more capable technology that will protect and defend the international ways of life,” Moody said. “Alongside the United States and Australia, the United Kingdom will continue to take deliberate steps that ensure DARC enables a collective ability to operate decisively in space.”

DARC is a unique collaboration between the three countries to get after first-of-its-kind capability that can do something that not only is needed from an operational perspective but has never been done before.

One of the main benefits of radar is that it operates 24 hours a day, in all weather and can make observations through clouds and during the daytime – something optical telescopes cannot do. An ongoing challenge of radar versus telescope, however, is that the further out your radar goes, the larger the power required to transmit and the bigger the receiver arrays must be. DARC addresses this challenge by using multiple smaller arrays that combine the signals from space to act as one large array. This ground-breaking concept was initially demonstrated by the USSF through its DARC technology demonstration at White Sands Missile Range in 2021.

“The completed DARC system will enhance our Space Domain Awareness enterprise architecture by adding a critical element,” said Brig. Gen. Chandler Atwood, deputy commander of Space Operations Command.

“DARC will ensure the U.S., its allies, and partners can effectively characterize the movement of objects traveling in, from and to space, allowing us to mitigate the risk of debris-causing events that could hold the world’s space-enabled capabilities at risk. Increased Space Domain Awareness will also bolster our vital ability to attribute malign activity from irresponsible actors in the space domain when and if necessary.”

Construction of the first site in Exmouth in Western Australia began in October of 2023. The site infrastructure has been completed, including the radar power plant.

Spectrum licenses and airspace approvals for the Australian site also have been completed, as well as the first receiver and transmitter antennas. The first open-air transmit of the first antenna was completed in September 2024 and the Australian site is expected to become fully operational in 2027. 

The speed at which the DARC construction and commissioning has occurred could only have been achieved through an open and collaborative relationship between the three nations and Australian industry. The construction site in Exmouth is remote and austere with difficult conditions for the workforce to operate in. Despite the challenges, the respective teams have adopted an attitude that focuses on delivery of capability at speed.

SSC recently awarded Northrop Grumman a contract for the second site currently proposed to be located at a U.K. Ministry of Defense site in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Environmental assessments and town planning processes are underway for this site which are required for the final siting approval. A third site will be located in the Continental United States, at a to-be-determined location, pending the completion of environmental and air space studies. The entire DARC system is currently expected to be complete by 2032.

Quote:Going DARC

Here are five things to know about DARC:

1.) All-Weather

Current ground-based optical sensors can get blocked by clouds. DARC’s technology allows the radar to be effective no matter what the forecast. This is crucial for maintaining constant vigilance, rain or shine, so our adversaries cannot capitalize on natural events to camouflage their activity.

2.) 24/7

Traditional ground-based optical Space Domain Awareness (SDA) systems operate at night when the sky is dark and light reflections from satellites can be detected. DARC will operate around the clock and provide full global coverage.

3.) Farthest Reach

Seeing an object from 22,000 miles away may seem hard to imagine — because it is. That’s roughly a trip around the equator. DARC will have the farthest reach with the most detail of any current ground-based radars on the planet.

4.) International Partnerships

DARC is not only critical for the U.S., but our allies, too. Operating in a trilateral partnership with the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, DARC expands beyond what the individual nations could achieve alone in one of the most critical domains for future security.

5.) Full Global Coverage

Leveraging the strategic locations of the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, the global network of advanced ground-based sensors will monitor and detect any point in space from Earth, providing constant vigilance for an area of space essential for our security and way of life.

“With three sites you get coverage of the entire GEO belt. DARC will provide unprecedented SDA capability for an absolutely critical orbital regime which would make achieving operational surprise exceedingly difficult for our adversaries,” said Pablo.