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US Air Force to set up space force to patrol around Moon to scan for 'threats'
space, an area that surrounds the Earth and goes past the lunar orbit.The narrator in the video says: "Until now, the United States space mission extended 22,000 miles above Earth. That was then; this is now.""The Air Force Research Laboratory is extending that range by 10 times and the operations area of the United States by 1,000 times, taking our reach to the far side of the moon into cislunar space, far beyond the crowd."The AFRL website says: "The Cislunar Highway Patrol System (CHPS) is a spaceflight experiment designed to demonstrate foundational space domain awareness capabilities in the cislunar regime."The CHPS is being introduced in an attempt to ensure that as space traffic increases, it still remains safe as the patrol will track any possible collisions and monitor the space.