On a remote North Yorkshire Moor, RAF Fylingdales keeps a silent watch on space for Americas missile defence system. In the centre of the building there is a blast proof control room, inside which RAF experts are spying on spies.
This is Britain’s secret system that watches spy satellites, which was unknown to public until recently. The satellite warning service knows where every surveillance satellite is, what it can see, and where it’s going. Than it tells military commanders anywhere in the world when they are in danger of being spied on.
These spy satellites can take pictures of objects less than an inch across and are so secret that no details are available to public apart from that they do exist. Fylingdales can keep British troops safe because of the system called ‘the fence’, which is a 6000 mile wide radar field constantly on the lookout for nuclear missiles. When a satellite comes trough a radar fence it’s identified. The vital element is Fylingdales ability to ping spy satellites as they move trough the radar to check if they are being quietly moved on to a different orbit and if they are the system instantly plots the new course and commanders on the ground can be warned they are about to become less safe.
In a bunker in Buckinghamshire, underneath RAF’s air command, the newly formed space coordination centre gathers intelligence to protect the activity that happens in space that Britain relies on. The satellite warning system takes the element of surprise away from the spies so UK troops around the world it’s one less thing to worry about.

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