The AN/FPS-133 Air Force Space Surveillance System, colloquially known as the Space Fence, was a U.S. government multistatic radar system built to detect...
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AN/FPS-133 Air Force Space Surveillance System, also known as the Space Fence and its replacement Space Fence Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) / Space Based...
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The Space Fence is a second-generation space surveillance system operated by the United States Space Force in order to track artificial satellites and...
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communications system for missile warning and space surveillance. There are SSPARS systems at five sites: Beale Air Force Base, CA, Cape Cod Space Force Station...
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The Maui Space Surveillance Complex (MSSC) is a U.S. Space Force operating location for the 15th Space Surveillance Squadron and the Air Force Research...
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The Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system is a planned United States Space Force constellation of satellites and supporting ground infrastructure...
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The 20th Space Surveillance Squadron (20 SPSS) is a Space Delta 2 unit located at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida with the mission to execute multiplatform...
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73d Space Surveillance Group was activated under Air Force Space Command, centralizing its space surveillance capabilities. Unlike Strategic Air Command...
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States Space Surveillance Network which has detectors such as the Space Fence (replacing the now defunct Air Force Space Surveillance System) and Space Surveillance...
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The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS; formerly SBIRS-Low) was a pair of satellites developed by the United States Missile Defense Agency (MDA)...
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mitigate interference, and AN/FPS-123s were part of the Air Force Space Surveillance System by 2009. The Beale AN/FPS-123 was upgraded to a Raytheon...
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The United States Air Force's 1st Space Surveillance Squadron (1 SSS) was a space surveillance unit located at Griffiss AFB, New York. The mission of the...
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Mission Delta 2 (redirect from Space Delta 2 (Space Domain Awareness))
Altitude Space Surveillance System was operated by the 4th Space Surveillance Squadron at Lackland Air Force Base, Detachment 1 at Osan Air Base, Korea...
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1970s, Air Force space forces were organized within Aerospace Defense Command for missile defense and space surveillance forces, Strategic Air Command...
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The Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) is a Southern Hemisphere-based United States Space Force telescope used for detecting, tracking, and cataloguing...
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Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, and manages the United States' space launch ranges. Space Systems Command is the oldest military space organization...
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The Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) is a United States Space Force system intended to meet the United States' Department of Defense infrared space surveillance...
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States Air Force and the United States Space Force are organized. The Department of the Air Force is headed by the Secretary of the Air Force (SAF/OS)...
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as an Air Force major command in 1946. Gained space and missile warning responsibility in 1960 Transferred missile surveillance radars to Air Defense...
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Cavalier Space Force Station, North Dakota, is a United States Space Force installation, where the 10th Space Warning Squadron, Space Delta 4, United States...
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Airport Surveillance Radar at Ämari Air Base, with ASR-8 Mont Verdun Mont-de-Marsan Cinq-Mars-la-Pile Mont Agel The French Air and Space Force's Air Operations...
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independent space forces in the world. The United States Space Force traces its origins to the Air Force, Army, and Navy's military space programs created...
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The Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC), based at Florida's Patrick Space Force Base, is an Air Force surveillance organization assigned to...
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Vandenberg Air Force Base (later Vandenberg Space Force Base), California, 22 July 2016 – present Ground-based Electro Optical Deep Space Surveillance System (February...
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United States Space Force). These components include the former Naval Space Surveillance System (renamed the Air Force Space Surveillance System) and the responsibility...
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E-8 Joint Surveillance Radar and Attack System (JSTARS) which the Air Force is seeking to divest. Examples of ISR systems include surveillance and reconnaissance...
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Buckley Space Force Base (IATA: BFK, ICAO: KBKF, FAA LID: BKF) is a United States Space Force base in Aurora, Colorado named after United States Army Air Service...
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Cheyenne Mountain Complex (redirect from Space Control Center)
early-warning system. Since 2008, NORAD and the USSC have been based at Peterson Space Force Base and the complex, re-designated as an Air Force station, is...
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Estonian Air Force has a strength of 1,568 personnel. It operates unarmed aircraft and several radar systems. Its main tasks are to provide surveillance of...
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squadron, originally the 16th Surveillance Squadron, operated the Cobra Dane space detection system at Shemya Air Force Base, Alaska. The 16th Electromagnetic...
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