ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: U.S. ARMY
31January2011 4:48pmEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- For 35 days, the comings and goings 
of employees in the Von Braun Complex parking lot here were the focus of a group of young engineers involved in an experiment with the first Army-built satellite launched in more than 50 years.
Those engineers weren't spying on employees. Nor were they looking for fodder for gossip or to start rumors. They were simply using the physical movements through the parking lot to test the capabilities of a 10-inch long, 10-pound satellite in orbit 200 miles above ground.
The Space and Missile Defense Command-Operational Nanosatellite Effect, known as SMDC-ONE, was launched Dec. 8, as a secondary payload on a Falcon 9 two-stage booster flown commercially by Space Exploration Technologies. (read full report)
