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The Reagan test site encompasses

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approximately 750,000 square miles in

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the Pacific Ocean . This strategic

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positioning , along with its unique

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assets gives it unquestionable value .

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Here we have six radars for very large

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radars . Two of them provide deep space

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tracking . They identify where things

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are in space . One of them has the

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world's record for the deepest space

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track of any radar . Uh We also have to

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smaller radars that provide very

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detailed resolution information and one

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of them is the highest resolution

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imaging radar in the world . These four

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radars working together are the

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backbone of the R . T . S . Mission

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strategically because we're in the

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central pacific we have visibility on a

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third of the volume of space that

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nobody else has visibility of launches

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are determined by what it takes to get

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into orbit and the physics of what it

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takes to get into orbit . Pretty much

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takes all of the major launch sites in

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Russia and china and europe , even

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India right over top of RTs , enabling

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the Reagan test site to identify

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objects and their intent at the most

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critical time when they first go into

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space . Tech Sergeant Alicia Somerville ,

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US Army Kwajalein atoll .