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The Satellite Control Network (SCN), operated by the United States Space Force's Space Delta 6, provides support for the operation, control, and maintenance of a variety of United States Department of Defense and some non-DoD satellites. This involves continual execution of Telemetry, Tracking, and Commanding (TT&C) operations.
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.
The Air Force Space Surveillance System (AFSSS), also known as the "space fence", was a very high frequency radar network located at sites across the southern United States (from California to Georgia) with a centralized data processing site at the Naval Network and Space Operations Command in Dahlgren, Virginia. AFSSS began as the Navy's Space ...
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 ...
In 2016, the 20th Space Control Squadron acquired the three Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) sites. 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.
The FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation began a multi-year process to conduct an Environmental Impact Statement [43] and public hearings on the new launch site, which would be located in Cameron County, Texas. The site was to initially support up to 12 commercial launches per year, including two Falcon Heavy launches. [44] [45] [46]
A mission control center (MCC, sometimes called a flight control center or operations center) is a facility that manages space flights, usually from the point of launch until landing or the end of the mission.
The 22d Space Operations Squadron is a satellite control unit of the United States Space Force. It is part of Space Delta 6 [ 2 ] and is located at Schriever Space Force Base , Colorado. Prior to July 2020 it was part of the 50th Network Operations Group , itself a part of the 50th Space Wing .