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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 ...
In August 2004, the 20th Space Control Squadron activated Detachment 1 at Naval Support Activity Dahlgren to operate the Air Force Space Surveillance System (formerly the Navy Space Surveillance System) and the Alternate Space Control Center. Detachment 1, 20th Space Control Squadron was inactivated in April 2010, followed by the inactivation ...
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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:
In July 2014, 4 SPCS relocated from Holloman AFB to Peterson AFB and consolidated with 76 SPCS into a single squadron, which assumed the name 4th Space Control Squadron. The 16th Space Control Squadron was activated as a defensive space control unit in May 2007 at Peterson AFB. [6] As the space control mission grew, so did the requirement for ...
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 ...