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ItemHiding from the light: The establishment of the Joint Australia-United States Relay Ground Station at Pine GapTanter, R (Nautilus, 2019-11-02)The author discusses recently released Australian cabinet papers dealing with a decision in September 1997 to allow the establishment of a Joint Australia-United States Relay Ground Station at Pine Gap to support two United States early warning satellite systems in place of its predecessor, the Joint Space Communications Facility at Nurrungar. The cabinet papers give a picture, albeit one muddied by censorship, of the Howard government’s consideration of ‘a U.S. request to continue Australian involvement in a U.S. space technological system to provide the U.S. with not only early warning of missile attack as a basis of nuclear deterrence, but also the capacity to target a retaliatory nuclear strike in the most effective way as part of a nuclear war-fighting capability. There is little evidence in these documents that senior ministers and their advisors considered these matters with any seriousness.’
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ItemNo Preview AvailableUS signals intelligence (SIGINT) activities in Japan 1945 – 2015: A Visual GuideTANTER, R ; Ball, D (Nautilus Institute, 2015)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableExpanded Communications Satellite Surveillance and Intelligence Activities Utilising Multi-beam Antenna SystemsBall, Desmond, ; Campbell, Duncan, ; Robinson, Bill, ; TANTER, R (Nautilus Institute, 2015-05-28)The recent expansion of FORNSAT/COMSAT (foreign satellite/communications satellite) interception by the UKUSA or Five Eyes (FVEY) partners has involved the installation over the past eight years of multiple advanced quasi-parabolic multi-beam antennas, known as Torus, each of which can intercept up to 35 satellite communications beams. Material released by Edward Snowden identifies a ‘New Collection Posture’, known as ‘Collect-it-all’, an increasingly comprehensive approach to SIGINT collection from communications satellites by the NSA and its partners. There are about 232 antennas available at identified current Five Eyes FORNSAT/COMSAT sites, about 100 more antennas than in 2000. We conclude that development work at the observed Five Eyes FORNSAT/ COMSAT sites since 2000 has more than doubled coverage, and that adding Torus has more than trebled potential coverage of global commercial satellites. The report also discusses Torus antennas operating in Russia and Ukraine, and other U.S. Torus antennas.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableManaging Operations at Pine GapTANTER, R ; Ball, D ; Robinson, B (The Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, 2015)Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability Special Report
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Antennas of Pine GapBall, D ; Robinson, B ; TANTER, R (The Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, 2016)Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability Special Report
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAustralia’s participation in the Pine Gap enterpriseTANTER, R ; Ball, D ; Robinson, B (Nautilus Institute, 2016)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableProspects and Challenges of Nuclear Power and Small Modular Reactors in IndonesiaTanter, R ; Cogswell, BK ; Siahaan, N ; Siera R, F ; Ramana, MV (Nautilus Institute and Indonesian Institute of Energy Economics, 2017)