History of U.S. Space Surveillance and Satellite Cataloging

"This book provides an overview of the history of the development and evolution of the U.S. space surveillance system enabling discovery and catalog maintenance of all earth orbiting objects. The first part of the book is a basic narrative treatment of the evolution of the space surveillance system, with key people, organizations, achievements, and external events that shape the current system and its capabilities described. The second part of the book provides an historical record of key elements of the system evolution such as the observing sites, the orbit models, the computing systems, etc"-- Provided by publisher.