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•r,fs, ^WHh Attamn Republict* -Pboetf*, Motday, A«f. 1,1171ItHhfWIC phvfvfcoy Braddy, station manager of the Gila River Navy Space Surveillance Station, stands before the 1,040-foot transmitter antenna.*%.'More-aboutStation at Maricopa, Continued from Page B-lbidder. Braddy and his staff of 12 are Employed by Collins International Service Co., a subsidiary of Collins Radio, fac.’ A total, of 155 personnel man the surveillance stations. Only 15 are military. ?he system costs about $4.5 million to Operate annually.\ The Glia River Station Is just outside the small community of Maricopa, on a barren 23-acre federal preserve patrolled by George Wallace Bog, the station’s mongrel mascot.A stenciled sign at the station says: “USS Gilrlv, the driest ship In theNavy.It is lonely, often boring duty and for that reason Braddy said he has difficulty retaining staff, To pass time, he and others are making a receiver system to eavesdrop on satellite radio signals.'i.tlt;■«French arrest girl in torture murderGila River Station is connected with the nine other stations by teletype and it receives printouts of data on space objects. »Skylab II is seen as a burst of longer lines on a frequency diagram as it whizzes across the Arizona horizon.Associated Press CANNES, France — Police charged aV * year - old girl and two young men §unday with torturing and killing thegrl’s mother because she refused to al-w her daughters’a marriage to one of fhe men.JtI ITie girl’s name was withheld under French juvenile delinquency laws but officers said she and her companions risk tie death penalty if convicted.Braddy said technicians can use such clues, — scant to the uninformed — to determine a space object’s origin and where it will re-enter to bum up in the atmosphere.. -■Data obtained at the receiver stations are analyzed at a Dahlgren, Va.f headquarters for the system, where findings are placed in the memory of a $5 million computer.‘The mother, Jeanne Gnerucci, a 36-year - old unmarried waitress, was found in her apartment early Sunday framing, beaten and strangled. Police paid a bucket of water beside her bodytkot lt;lt;Via tiTno KA«iii«r.d Uam“The computer can locate an object anywhere over the world within six inches, Braddy bragged.“No matter where it is in space,” he said, “they can tell where it came from.”
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Phoenix Arizona Republic
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Mon, Aug 06, 1973
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