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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 ...
Eglin Site C-6's squadron of the 9th Aerospace Defense Division activated in September 1968 (now the 20th Space Control Squadron) [36] and after "technical problems"; [37] the site with radar and computer systems was completed [when?] in 1968, [38] were turned over to Air Force Systems Command on 20 September 1968, [39] and "became operational ...
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 ...
S. 26th Space Aggressor Squadron; 850th Space Communications Squadron; 1st Expeditionary Space Control Squadron; 3d Space Communications Squadron; 76th 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:
The first space control squadron, the 76th Space Operations Squadron was activated at Peterson Air Force Base in 2000 and renamed the 76th Space Control Squadron in January 2001, receiving initial operational capability on the Counter Communications System in September 2004. On 1 March 2003, all space surveillance squadrons were redesignated as ...