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Originally posted by Brother
Now that I think about it, those installations are satellite steering and monitoring stations.
When someone makes a poster like that, they want people to think we have full up military bases from which to wage war from.
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What is it that you think the military does at satellite steering and electronic monitoring stations, I wonder?
Pine Gap, near Alice Springs, employs nearly 1,000 people, mainly from the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office. Originally code-named MERINO, it is the ground station for a satellite network that intercepts telephone, radio, data links, and other communications around the world. The facility currently includes a dozen radomes, a 5,600 square meter computer room, and 20-odd service and support buildings. Two of its ground antenna are part of the U.S. Defense Satellite Communications System.
