Globus II has two tasks within the stated task of watching space. The first task is to gather metric data from satellites, which is used by the US Space Command to produce and maintain the Space Catalog, which contains orbit data on all man-made objects in outer space. The second task is to create high-resolution radar imagery by selected objects in space. Globus-II is allegedly capable of observing satellites in geosynchronous orbit at ranges of some 40,000 kilometers from Vardø, which is where the radar is deployed.