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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot and Hannah Devlin

Deep space radar site in Wales to go ahead to protect UK from ‘space warfare’

Porthselau Beach, St David's Pembrokeshire
Twenty-seven radar dishes are planned for the St Davids peninsula. Photograph: Rob Read/Alamy

Plans for a network of radars tracking deep space activity to help protect the UK from “space warfare” are to go ahead in Pembrokeshire, despite the opposition of local campaigners.

The 27 radar dishes planned for the St Davids peninsula, which will be 20 metres high and can track objects as small as a football, are part of a network planned around the globe.

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