re what counntries do space surveillance in article bd de cpva saic com thomsonal cpva saic com writes stuff deleted this leads to the more general question do yet other people than the us russia and japan do space surveillance and if so how and why allen thomson saic mclean va usa the french spot is an example that comes to mind although the company name escapes me at the moment sells images world wide you can bet your last dollar franc that the french gov t gets first dibs i remember a few years ago about the time spot was launched i was speaking to my dad an usaf officer about this and that and i happend to mention spot i think we were talking about technology utilization he just about went ballistic he wanted to know how i knew about spot and just what i knew i guess that space surveillance is such a sensitive topic in the air force that he couldn t believe that i would read about such a system in the popular press ie av week mark mark l littlefield intelligent systems department internet mll aio jsc nasa gov ussnail lockheed engineering and sciences nasa rd mc c houston tx
