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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 Test & Training Range: 76th Space Control Squadron: Peterson AFB "Lobos" Counter Communications System [7] 216th Space Control Squadron: Vandenberg SFB: Defensive ...
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 ...
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 ...
California: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. Total acres: 651,739 Branch: Navy. ... the 7th Special Forces Group, the 96th Test Wing, and the 20th Space Control Squadron. ...
Eglin AFB Site C-6 is a United States Space Force radar station which houses the AN/FPS-85 phased array radar, associated computer processing system(s), and radar control equipment designed and constructed for the U. S. Air Force by the Bendix Communications Division, Bendix Corporation.
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:
Following its activation, the 17th Test Squadron and 576th Flight Test Squadron were realigned under the 595th Space Group. The 527th Space Aggressor Squadron was also realigned on 23 October 2002 and the 25th Space Control Tactics Squadron, renamed the 25th Space Range Squadron, was activated under it on 1 July 2004. [12]
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 orbital objects passing over America. It is a component of the U.S. space surveillance network , and according to the U.S. Navy was able to detect basketball sized (75 cm (30 in)) objects at ...