The other GRAVES Registration Acts
The United States STRATCOM Space Surveillance Network has been publishing satellite data that France did not want published.
The Naval Space Command operates a continuous wave fence radar which consists of three multistatic emitters at Jordan Lake, Alabama, Lake Kickapoo, Texas, and Gila River, Arizona, and six receivers at Tattnall, Georgia., Hawkinsville, Georgia, Silver Lake, Mississippi, Red River, Arkansas, Elephant Butte, New Mexico, and San Diego, California.
France now has a a system consisting only of a set of bistatic emitters located in the canton of Broye les Pesmes (Haute-Saône) and a receiver array in the canton of Apt (Vaucluse). Its was wicked cheap to develop, and trés wicked cheap to operate, compared to the SPASUR system, and the Grand Reseau Adapte a la VEille Spatiale (GRAVES) system has now cateloged more than 20 low orbit objects, some with solar arrays, which do not appear in the U.S. Defense Department's published catalogue.
France is now in a position to reciprocate.
At a cost of only 30 million €s a year.
