🔹115 NAVY SPACE Flashcards
🔹Space Force Enhancement
Operations increase joint force effectiveness by increasing the combat potential of that force, enhancing operational awareness, and providing needed joint force support.
There are 5 force enhancement missions:
- ISR
- Missile warning
- Environmental monitoring
- Satellite communications
- PNT
🔹Space Support
The space support mission area includes
- space lift operations
(launching and deploying satellites) - satellite operations
(maintaining, sustaining, and rendezvous and proximity operations) - reconstitution of space forces
(replenishing lost or diminished satellites).
🔹Space Control
Space Control:
Provides freedom of action in space for friendly forces, and when directed, denies it to an adversary.
It consists of
- Offensive space control (OSC)
- Defensive space control (DSC)
- SSA
🔹Space Force Application
Space Force Application:
combat operations in, through, and from space to influence the course and outcome of conflict by holding terrestrial targets at risk. This mission area is incorporated into national space policy as well. Specific responsibilities can be found in DOD Instruction (DODI) 3100.13, Space Force Application.
🔹Where are the two main space launch facilities located in the US?
🔹Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL
🔹Vandenberg Air Force Base in CA
🔹What are the advantages/disadvantages of Space based ISR?
Advantages: Provides systematic and focused coverage of AOIs, sometimes without detection
Disadvantages: Satellite systems may be affected by atmospheric disturbances such as: fog, smoke, electrical storms, and precipitation and clouds, which affect the ability of imaging systems
🔹Define Apogee
in an elliptical orbit, a point on the orbit farthest from the center of the Earth.
🔹Define Perigee
the point in orbit closest to the center of the Earth.
🔹Discuss the following entities in the Space Environment and how they affect COMMS
The sun, solar winds, solar cycle and other natural phenomena in space create changes that can affect communications, navigation accuracy, performance of sensors and cause electronic failures.
Van Allen Radiation Belts are two concentric, donut-shaped regions of stable, trapped charged particles that exist because the geomagnetic field near the Earth is strong and field lines are closed. These radiation belts can have serious impact on satellite operations due to physical damage caused by charged particles.
Atmospheric Drag: Energy deposited in the Earth’s upper atmosphere by charged particle bombardment which heats the atmosphere, causing it to expand outward over a period of time. This produces more frictional drag on a satellite than expected and decreases its altitude while increasing its speed. Consequently, the satellite will be some distance below and ahead of its expected position when a ground radar or optical telescope attempts to locate it. Satellites in LEO orbit are the most susceptible.
🔹How many space missions are there and what are they?
- Space Force Application
- Space Control
- Space Force Enhancement
- Space Support
🔹Mission areas of Space Control
- prevention
- protection
- negation
- SSA
🔹What are the 5 space orbits?
- Low Earth
- Medium Eath
- Highly Elliptical
- Geosynchronous
- Polar