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HAVE STARE

The HAVE STARE radar, originally located at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, is an X-band 200 kw tracking radar that came on line at Vandenberg during 1995. It can detect small debris in the 1 to 10 cm range, depending on altitude.

The HAVE STARE (HS) radar was transferred from the intelligence budget in FY93 at the direction of Congress. The Air Force has identified a requirement for the HS system and has programmed funding in this program element to complete development and to deploy the system. HS is a high resolution X-band tracking and imaging radar with a 27 meter mechanical dish antenna.

In Mar 95 the system completed a highly successful DT&E at the Vandenberg AFB test site. In Nov 95 AFSPC selected an overseas location for system beddown. Anticipated IOC at this location is FY00. The radar will remain in place at VAFB through FY98 -- during this time the contractor will integrate and test a major software upgrade which will enable the system to support AFSPC's Space Surveillance mission. In conjunction with this latter effort, the Program Office will actively support NMD test demonstrations during ICBM FOT&E launches and perform X-Band Analysis Studies for NMD-Sponsor.

With site preparation at classified overseas operational deployment location planned to beginn in 1996, HS deployed in mid-1999 as a dedicated space surveillance sensor to support the mission of space object catalog maintenance of deep space objects and mission payload assessment. HS retained its original design features and their inherent potential to support other missions. The "classified" location is the Norwegian military intelligence facility in Vardo in Northern Norway (close to the Russian border). Norway and USA jointly financed the project ehich is called "Globus II." Work on the 132-foot-tall radar dome started in April 1998 and be completed in late 2000. It will be operated by Norway's Military Intelligence Service.

This system is currently in the EMD phase leading to an IOC in FY00. If needed, other existing forward-based radars (such as Cobra Dane or HAVE STARE) could also be used to support NMD systems.

HAVE STARE uses Ada83, with displays and controls functionality distributed across several workstations, and track support loops distributed across several general purpose processors with vector processors connected for signal processing. Other distributed processing includes specialized radar control and communications single-board computers, with signal processing performed by several processors within a single "data processor" machine. The HAVE STARE architecture thus consists of the single-board computer controlling the radar, another single-board computer for message processing, a multiprocessor "data processor" for the track loop, mission control, signal processing and data recording, and workstations for displays and controls.

Program Manager: Major Jim Conlon

DAC: M Gen Tattini

Contractor: Raytheon Electronics Systems

Contractor PM: Mr. Arlen Entsminger

RESOURCES

• Hemmelig norsk atomkappløp Norske myndigheter holder hemmelig at Norge er blitt en brikke i et nytt våpenkappløp. Dette skjer på grunn av byggingen av den nye radaren Globus II i Vardø.
• Kan kobles til rakettforsvar Bergens Tidende : 27.02.00 -- Den nye radaren i Vardø kan med enkle grep og på kort tid bli svært nyttig for USA i et nytt rakettforsvarssystem, sier John Pike i Føderasjonen av Amerikanske Forskere (FAS) til Bergens Tidende.

• HAVE STARE NEAR REAL-TIME IMAGING SEGMENT - Electronic Warfare Associates
• Acquisition Reform Success Story HAVE STARE
• FY98 Budget 0305910F Spacetrack (Space)
• Monitoring the Debris Environment [NASA JSC]
• Near-Term National Missile Defense Options
• ARTEWG Workshop on Distributed Systems 21-23 April 1995
• HAVE STARE TN Homepage

• NY RADAR I VARDØ Dato: 24. mars Pressemelding nr.: 29/1998 FORSVARETS OVERKOMMANDO PRESSE- OG INFORMASJONSAVDELINGEN OSLO MIL/HUSEBY
• Space junk so prolific that radar will track debris by The Associated Press March 26, 1998
• "Starwars"-radar move to Vardo Inge Sellevåg Bergens Tidende 4 Apr 1998
• The Vardo radar makes the Parliament Inge Sellevåg Bergens Tidende 5 Apr 1998
• AIR FORCE 'HAVE STARE' RADAR MAY BE DEPLOYED ALONG RUSSIAN BORDER Inside Missile Defense Vol. 4, No. 8 -- April 15, 1998 An Air Force space tracking and intelligence radar that could be used as part of a national missile defense architecture will soon be deployed in northern Norway along the Russian border
• The radar's name and adress unknown Inge Sellevåg Bergens Tidende 8 May 1998
• New radar in Vardo makes Norway bomb target BY INGE SELLEVÅG - 13 May 1998 -- The Have Stare radar according to American experts could have a potential role in an operational missile defense, providing mid-course discrimination of ballistic missiles launched from rogue states like Iraq or Iran against targets in the United States, the newspaper Bergens Tidende reported.
• Russia fears the Vardo radar Inge Sellevåg Bergens Tidende June 27, 1998
• Statement on Have Stare Secretary of the Air Force Office of Public Affairs SAF/PAM - 07 April 2000
• The Globus II Radar and Norwegian Surveillance Activities in the North 25 February 2000 - Due to the recent media interest in the Globus II radar, the Norwegian Minister of Defence, Mrs. Eldbjørg Løwer, wishes to issue the following statement.
• Hard fight about the Vardo radar BY INGE SELLEVAG Bergens Tidende 06 June 2000 -- Strong forces in the United States Air Force fought to use the Vardo radar technology in the US national missile defense. The fight continued also after it was announced that the radar was to move to Norway.

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