general | spacelift

telemetry | space environment

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space support - Combat service support operations to deploy and sustain military and intelligence systems in space. The spacesupport mission area includes launching and deploying space vehicles, maintaining and sustaining spacecraft on-orbit, and deorbiting and recovering space vehicles, if required. See also combat service support; space.
- from the DoD Dictionary

STRATCOM fact sheet description of this mission

satellite operations chapter (very short) from DoD Space Technology Guide

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• General ___[return to top]
  • Key Air Force Space Programs (local copy), the Space section of AF Handbook for Congress
    • communications systems, sensors, launch/lift resources, satellite control systems, weather systems, counterspace systems, attack warning, space-based radar, and GPS

  • Space Systems Survivability, from the AU Space Primer ...(250 Kb)

• Spacelift ___[return to top]
  • STRATCOM Space Missions fact sheet
    • All military satellites are launched from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, or Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. They ride into orbit on a variety of rockets, or "boosters," depending on their size, weight and the desired orbit. For example, large satellites need the thrust of a large Titan IV booster, while smaller satellites use the smaller Atlas or Delta boosters.

  • Atlas II Launch Vehicle fact sheet
  • Delta II Launch Vehicle fact sheet
  • Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) fact sheet
  • Titan IVB heavy-lift space launch vehicle fact sheet

  • Space Launch Vehicles: Government Activities, Commercial Competition, and Satellite Exports, Congressional Research Services (CRS) report

  • Space Station: Impact of the Grounding of the Shuttle Fleet, Sep 2003 GAO report

  • space transportation chapter (very short) from DoD Space Technology Guide

  • U.S. Space Launch Systems, from the AU Space Primer ...(670 Kb)
  • Spacecraft Design, Structure And Operation, from the AU Space Primer ...(740 Kb)

  • Rest-Of-World (ROW) Space Launch Systems, from the AU Space Primer ...(2,500 Kb)

  • A Discussion of Spacelift, from Space Power Theory, by Oberg

• Telemetry ___[return to top]
  • Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) fact sheet
  • Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) history

  • Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN)

  • GSAW Ground System Architectures Workshops, annual conference with links to past agendas and briefings
    • Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) Architecture Evolution, from 2000 workshop

• Space Environment ___[return to top]
  • Space Environment, from the AU Space Primer ...(900 Kb)
  • Terrestrial-Solar Environment And Effects On Manned Spaceflight, from the AU Space Primer ...(300 Kb)

  • Space Weather links

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