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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, tactical space warfighting domain characterization, recognition, and responsiveness to achieve 21st Space Wing and United States Space Command intent. The unit, formerly designated the 20th ...
1st Space Control Squadron [4] Vandenberg AFB: Satellite Catalog: 4th Space Control Squadron [5] Holloman AFB "Space Pirates" Counter Communications System [6] 16th Space Control Squadron: Peterson AFB: RAIDRS: 20th Space Control Squadron: Eglin AFB: AN/FPS-85 Phased-array radar: 25th Space Range Squadron: Schriever AFB "Executioners" Space ...
The Space Force claims it is the only phased array radar that can track spacecraft in deep space, can detect an object the size of a basketball out to geosynchronous orbit, 35,700 km in space, and is the most powerful radar in the world. [6] However its aging legacy technology, which uses vacuum tubes, gives it high maintenance costs. [14]
The New Boston Space Force Station was already home to the 23rd Space Operations Squadron, part of the 50th Space Wing, before the summer of 2020 — but that's when it was formally transferred to ...
15th Space Surveillance Squadron; 20th Space Surveillance Squadron (Detachment 3) Maui Space Surveillance Complex (MSSC) is located at the 10,023 foot-summit of Haleakala on the island of Maui, Hawaii as part of the Haleakalā Observatory, hosting Geographically Separate Units (GSUs) of Space Delta 2. The MSSC is host to small, medium, and ...
On 20 April 2016, the GEODSS detachments transitioned from the 21st Operations Group to the 20th Space Control Squadron and the 18th Space Control Squadron was reactivated on 22 July 2016 at Vandenberg Air Force Base. [9] In 2019, the 721st Operations Group was activated and gained the 4th Space Control Squadron and 16th Space Control Squadron ...
Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance, or GEODSS, is an optical system that uses telescopes, low-light level TV cameras, and computers. It replaced an older system of six 20 inch (half meter) Baker-Nunn cameras which used photographic film. There are three operational GEODSS sites that report to the 20th Space Control Squadron:
S. 26th Space Aggressor Squadron; 850th Space Communications Squadron; 1st Expeditionary Space Control Squadron; 3d Space Communications Squadron; 76th Space Control Squadron