Sunday, 17 November 2013

Kebimbangan Perisik: CIA, ‘Kerja terhadap’ Pentagon Rusia membina stesen GLONASS di Amerika Syarikat . . .



SitiWanMahani - Perisikan Amerika Syarikat dan tentera yang menekan Jabatan Negeri tidak dilesenkan (not to license) pembinaan stesen monitor untuk GLONASS sistem navigasi Rusia di wilayah Amerika Syarikat, media mendedahkan. Stesen dilaporkan mencetuskan kebimbangan peluang mengintip.

Moscow menghantar permintaan untuk membina stesen monitor untuk GLONASS, sistem satelit Rusia sama dengan GPS, di wilayah Amerika Syarikat pada Mei 2012.

White House telah memikirkan cadangan sejak itu. Beberapa mesyuarat antara pihak berkuasa Rusia dan Amerika di stesen monitor GLONASS di Amerika Syarikat telah berlaku, tetapi setakat ini keselamatan Amerika Syarikat dan agensi-agensi tentera tidak bersetuju tentang bagaimana untuk bertindak balas kepada permintaan Moscow.

CIA dan Pentagon mengesyaki bahawa stesen itu boleh digunakan untuk mengumpul data perisikan dan tujuan ketenteraan yang lain, seperti mengumpul Koordinat sebenar kemu-dahan rahsia di Amerika Syarikat untuk ketepatan peluru berpandu panduan, laporan hujung minggu di The New York Times mendedahkan.

“Dalam beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini, Agensi Perisikan Pusat dan Pentagon telah secara senyap-senyap melancarkan kempen untuk menghentikan Jabatan Negara daripada membenarkan Roscosmos . . . untuk membina kira-kira setengah dozen struktur ini, yang dikenali sebagai stesen monitor, di atas tanah Amerika Syarikat,” kata laporan itu mengatakan, memetik pegawai Amerika Syarikat tanpa nama.

Kebimbangan adalah bahawa stesen mungkin membantu Moscow mengintip Amerika Syarikat serta meningkatkan ketepatan senjata Rusia.

Spy fears: CIA, Pentagon ‘Work Against’ Russia building 
GLONASS station in US . . .

US intelligence and military are pressing the State Department not to license construction of monitor stations for Russia’s GLONASS navigation system on US territory, media reveals. The stations reportedly spark fears of spying opportunities.

Moscow sent a request to build monitor stations for GLONASS, a Russian satellite system similar to GPS, on US territory in May 2012.

The White House has been pondering over the proposal ever since. A number of meetings between Russian and American authorities on the GLONASS monitor stations in the US have taken place, but so far US security and military agencies have not agreed about how to react to Moscow’s request.

The CIA and Pentagon suspect that such stations could be used for collecting intelligence data and other military purposes, like collecting exact coordinates of covert facilities in the US for precision missile guidance, a weekend report in The New York Times revealed.

“In recent months, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon have been quietly waging a campaign to stop the State Department from allowing Roscosmos… to build about half a dozen of these structures, known as monitor stations, on United States soil,” the report alleges, quoting anonymous US officials.

The concerns are that the stations might help Moscow spy on the US as well as improve the precision of Russian weaponry.


Boris Zyryanov, ketua bahagian elektrik dan ujian radio navigasi satelit, menyelia ujian elektrik yang GLONASS-M ruang navigasi satelit  (Boris Zyryanov, chief of division of electric and radio tests of navigating satellites, supervises the electric testing of the GLONASS-M space navigation satellite (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Juga, penggubal undang-undang Amerika tidak suka idea bekerjasama dengan saingan langsung Amerika Syarikat kebangsaan Sistem Kedudukan Global.

Minggu lepas Mike D. Rogers, Wakil Republikan Alabama, menulis ‘mailout’ untuk Setia-usaha Negara John Kerry, Setiausaha Pertahanan Chuck Hagel dan pengarah perisikan negara, James R. clapper, menuntut penilaian mereka terhadap cadangan Rusia pada per-soalan kebangsaan keselamatan.

Selain dari Amerika Syarikat dan Russia, China dan EU juga membangunkan sistem SatNav mereka sendiri, Baidu dan Galileo masing-masing.

“Mereka tidak mahu menjadi bergantung kepada sistem Amerika dan percaya bahawa sistem mereka, seperti GPS, akan melahirkan industri dan aplikasi lain,” kata seorang bekas pegawai kanan di Pejabat Jabatan Negara Angkasa dan Teknologi Lanjutan kepada akh-bar itu. “Mereka merasakan seolah-olah mereka kehilangan kelebihan teknologi kepada kita dalam pasaran yang penting. Lihatlah segala-galanya GPS telah melakukan ke atas perkara-perkara seperti telefon anda dan pergerakan kapal terbang dan kapal-kapal.”

Namun, White House setakat ini telah menentang tuduhan masyarakat perisikan Amerika Syarikat terhadap Rusia sebagai “Ianya tidak melihat mereka sebagai ancaman,” kata seorang pegawai pentadbiran yang tidak dikenali.

Pentadbiran Obama sedang berusaha untuk memperbaiki hubungan Rusia- Amerika, rosak dari Syria dan perlindungan kepada bekas National Security Agency kontraktor Edward Snowden, yang mendedahkan dokumen- disokong bukti Amerika Syarikat mengintip tahap yang tidak pernah berlaku sebelum ini melalui rangkaian global, termasuk selepas sekutu mereka yang terdekat.

Dalam Oktober 2012 Vitaly Davydov, Timbalan bekas Roskosmos agensi angkasa Rusia, menunjukkan bahawa Moscow perlu menggunakan 8 stesen monitor di Amerika Syarikat untuk pengendalian yang betul sistem di Amerika Utara. Beliau juga berkata 19 stesen monitor Amerika GPS sistem kedudukan telah beroperasi di Rusia pada 2012.

Sebaliknya, dalam laporan terkini mengenai GLONASS di Amerika Syarikat, NYT mendak-wa bahawa tidak ada memantau stesen GPS di Rusia sekalipun.

Apakah GLONASS

 Pembangunan GLONASS sistem navigasi global bermula di Soviet Union, yang meletakkan satelit pertama sistem ke orbit pada 12 Oktober 1982. Sistem ini secara rasmi ditugaskan pada 24 September 1993.

Walaupun beberapa roket rosak dengan melancarkan satelit GLONASS dalam tahun-tahun kebelakangan ini, hari ini kumpulan orbit GLONASS terdiri daripada 27 satelit, di mana 24 memastikan navigasi global dan baki 3 adalah sama ada dalam rizab atau melakukan ujian peralatan eksperimen.

Rusia telah menggerakkan stesen sistem pembesaran ke luar negara untuk beberapa lama sudah. Setakat ini, terdapat 14 stesen monitor di Rusia, salah satu di Brazil dan satu di benua Antartika di Bellingshausen stesen Rusia.

Banyak stesen GLONASS dijangka akan dibina dalam masa terdekat: 8 di Rusia, 2 di Brazil, satu di Australia, Cuba, Indonesia, Sepanyol, Vietnam dan stesen tambahan di Antartika.

Ia telah mengesahkan lebih awal pada bulan November yang bermula dari 2014 semua telefon mudah alih dan peranti pegang tangan mudah alih dengan fungsi navigasi, sama ada yang diimport atau dikeluarkan di Rusia, perlu dilengkapi dengan GLONASS atau GLONASS dan mikrocip GPS.

Also, American lawmakers don’t like the idea of cooperating with the direct rival of the US national Global Positioning System.

Last week Mike D. Rogers, Republican Representative of Alabama, wrote a mailout to Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper, demanding their assessment of the Russian proposal on the question of national security.

Apart from the US and Russia, China and the EU are also developing satnav systems of their own, Baidu and Galileo respectively.

“They don’t want to be reliant on the American system and believe that their systems, like GPS, will spawn other industries and applications,” a former senior official in the State Department’s Office of Space and Advanced Technology told the newspaper. “They feel as though they are losing a technological edge to us in an important market. Look at everything GPS has done on things like your phone and the movement of planes and ships.”

Still, the White House so far has been opposing accusations of the US intelligence com-munity against Russia as “It doesn't see them as a threat,” an unidentified administration official said.

The Obama administration is currently trying to mend Russian-American relations, damaged over Syria and asylum to former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who revealed document-supported evidence of the US spying on unprecedented levels over global networks, including after their closest allies.

In October 2012 Vitaly Davydov, the former deputy of Russia’s Roskosmos space agency, revealed that Moscow needs to deploy eight monitor stations in the US for correct operation of the system in North America. He also disclosed that 19 monitor stations of American GPS positioning system were operable in Russia as of 2012.

On the contrary, in the latest report on the GLONASS in the US, the NYT claims that there are no GPS monitor stations in Russia whatsoever.

What is GLONASS

The development of the GLONASS global navigation system began in the Soviet Union, which put the very first satellite of the system into orbit on October 12, 1982. The system was officially commissioned on September 24, 1993.

Despite a number of faulty rocket launches with GLONASS satellites in recent years, today the GLONASS orbit group consists of 27 satellites, of which 24 ensure global navigation and the remaining three are either in reserve or perform experimental equipment tests.

Russia has been deploying augmentation system stations abroad for some time already. So far there are 14 monitor stations in Russia, one in Brazil and one on Antarctica's continent at Russia’s Bellingshausen station.

More GLONASS stations are expected to be built in the nearest future: eight in Russia, two in Brazil, one in Australia, Cuba, Indonesia, Spain, Vietnam and an additional station in the Antarctic.

It was confirmed earlier in November that starting from 2014 all mobile phones and portable handheld devices with navigation functions, either imported or produced in Russia, must be equipped with GLONASS, or GLONASS and GPS microchips.

Di pos perintah untuk pengurusan GLONASS dalam Titov Utama Space Ujian Pusat  (At the command post for GLONASS management in the Titov Main Space Testing Center (RIA Novosti/Sergey Pyatakov - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

GLONASS hari ini disokong pada produk daripada pengeluar yang terkemuka di DUNIA peranti pegang tangan, seperti Samsung, Nokia, Apple, Motorola dan lain-lain, serentak dengan GPS. Ini telah menjadi mungkin sebahagian besarnya kerana pengeluar utama mikrocip, seperti Qualcomm, telah mula mengeluarkan set cip GLONASS dibolehkan.

Pengenalan sistem kedudukan baru telah dialu-alukan oleh pelanggan di seluruh DUNIA, kerana menggunakan kedua-dua GLONASS dan GPS sistem meningkatkan ketepatan kedu-dukan. EGNOS projek Eropah menyatukan isyarat dari kedua-dua sistem dan memberikan kedudukan tepat ke antara 1.5 dan 3 meter di Eropah.

Dalam GLONASS dekad yang akan datang dijangka untuk menggantikan satelit sedia ada dengan platform generasi baru yang akan membolehkan 0.1 meter kedudukan tepat di mana sahaja di DUNIA, kecuali kawasan kutub planet ini.

Today GLONASS is supported on products from world-leading handheld device producers, such as Samsung, Nokia, Apple, Motorola and others, simultaneously with GPS. This has become possible largely because leading producers of microchips, such as Qualcomm, have started producing GLONASS-enabled chipsets.

The introduction of a new positioning system has been welcomed by customers worldwide, because using both GLONASS and GPS systems increases the precision of positioning. European EGNOS project unites signals from both systems and gives precision positioning down to between 1.5 and 3 meters in Europe.

Within the next decade GLONASS is expected to replace existing satellites with new generation platforms that would enable 0.1 meter precision positioning anywhere in the world, except the polar regions of the planet.


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