Free range cows graze only feet away from the entrance road to the White Sands Missile Range--the location of Detachment 1, 20th Operations Group and their space surveillance mission, March 29, 2017 in New Mexico. In order to track up to roughly 20,000 objects in space, the ground-based electro-optical deep-space surveillance site requires nearly zero light pollution.

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