SPACE Flashcards
USSTRATCOM
• Command authority overspace forces and assets
USAF
• DoD’s Executive Agency for Space• Director of Space Forces
US ARMY
Lead agency for SHFOperate 4 RSSCs * Stuttgart, GE [EUCOM, AFRICOM] * Wheeler Army AF, HI [PACOM] * Peterson AFB, CO [NORTHCOM] * MacDill AFB, FL [CENTCOM, SOCOM, SOUTHCOM] Operate 5 wideband operations centers * Ft Detrick - Maryland * Ft Meade - Maryland * Landstuhl, Germany * Wahiawa - Hawaii * Okinawa, Japan Provide space based missile detection capabilities
USN
- lead agency for narrowband UHF
* Satellite operations for narrowband at NAVSOC
NAVNETWARCOM
- the Navy’s central authority forspace
- CBSP manager
- SATVUL Packages
- Space Effect Packages
Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Altitude: 95-1500 kmPeriod: 90-120 minutesISRSATCOM: IRIDIUMENVIRONMENT:POES, Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP)
Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)
Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)Altitude: 20,000kmPeriod: 12 hoursPNT, GPS
Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO)
Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO)Altitude: 36,000kmPeriod: 24 hoursISR: Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP), Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS), Advanceed Technology Risk Reduction (ATRR) SATCOM: AEHF, MILSTAR, WGS, DSCS, UFO, MUOS, FLTSATCOMMW: Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS), Defense Support Program (DSP)ENVIRONMENT: GOES
Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO)
Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO)Altitude: 400km perigee, 40,000km apogeePeriod: 12 hoursISRSATCOM: EPS (Enhanced Polar System)
10 Space Operations and Functions
Weather (Environmental Monitoring) ISR Missile Warning PNT SATCOM Space SA Spacelift Nuclear Detonation Detection Space Control Satellite OPS
Space Control
The purpose of these operations is to achieve space superiority
- Offensive Space Control– deny adversary freedom of action in space
- Defensive Space Control– ensure freedom of action in space for the US and its allies
3 Segments associated with space systems
Ground -ground-based facilities and equipment supporting C2 of space segment
Link -consists of signals connecting ground and space segments
Space - Satellites and spacecraft
UHF Satellites
UFO, MUOS, FLTSAT (Legacy)
SHF Satellites
WGS, DSCS
EHF Satellites
MILSTAR, AEHF