Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance
The Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System, or GEODSS, plays a vital role in tracking deep space objects. More than 2,500 objects, including geostationary communication satellites, are in deep space orbits varying in altitude from 10,000 to 45,000 kilometers from Earth.
Approximately 20,000 known man-made objects in orbit around the Earth. These objects range from active payloads, such as weather satellites or Global Positioning System satellites to "space junk" such as rocket bodies or debris from past satellite breakups.
U. S. Strategic Command's Joint Space Operations Center Space Situational Awareness Operations Cell, located at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., is responsible for tracking all man-made objects in orbit. The center receives on-orbit positional data, known as element sets, from the Space Surveillance Network which comprises optical and radar sensors throughout the world. This enables the center to maintain accurate data on every man-made object currently in orbit.
There are three operational GEODSS sites that report directly to Air Force Space Command's 21st Operations Group, 21st Space Wing at Peterson AFB, Colo. They are: Detachment 1, Socorro, N.M.; Detachment 2, Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory; and Detachment 3, Maui, Hawaii.
http://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-She...ased-electro-optical-deep-space-surveillance/
USSTRATCOM Space Control and Space Surveillance
USSTRATCOM's space control mission includes: surveillance of space, protection of US and friendly space systems, prevention of an adversary's ability to use space systems and services for purposes hostile to US national security interests, and direct support to battle management, command, control, communications, and intelligence. The space control mission is conducted by USSTRATCOM's Joint Functional Component Command for Space (JFCC Space).
JFCC Space, through its Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC), detects, tracks, and identifies all artificial objects in Earth orbit. The JSpOC is a synergistic command and control weapon system focused on planning and executing USSTRATCOM's JFCC Space mission. Its purpose is to provide a focal point for the operational employment of worldwide joint space forces, and enable the Commander, JFCC Space (CDR JFCC SPACE) to integrate space power into global military operations.
The JSpOC is composed of six core divisions: Strategy Division (SRD), Space Surveillance Division (SSD), Combat Operations Division (COD), United Space Vault (USV), Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division (ISRD), and Operations Support Division (OSD).
* SRD develops comprehensive space strategy that directly supports CDR JFCC Spaceand Combatant Commanders by integrating space effects, timing and tempointo the commander's campaign objectives.
* SSD providesenhanced situational awareness to decision makers on behalf of CDR JFCCSPACE to enable protect and defend operations.
* COD conductscommand and control over the execution phase of operations and providesinformation on tasking responses to CDR JFCC Space, the other JSpOCdivisions, upper command echelons, and theater space personnel for theirspace situational awareness.
* USV conductsvarious classified and unclassified Defensive Space Control, OffensiveSpace Control, and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) missions.
* ISRD is integrated into all phases of the operational cycle, providingpertinent space intelligence information to the other divisions in supportof the strategy, planning and operations monitoring efforts.
* OSD provides training, standardization, evaluation and system integrationsupport.
http://www.stratcom.mil/Media/Facts...tratcom-space-control-and-space-surveillance/
DSP SATELLITE FAST WALKER INCIDENT
MAY 5, 1984, an alert was triggered at the North America Air Defense Command. Moving at 22,000 miles per hour, it was heading toward Earth and had been determined to NOT be incoming ballistic missles, or any other type of conventionally explainable object. Once tracked, it was code-named "Fast Walker".
This object was first spotted by the ultra-sensitive orbiting USDSP satellites our county uses for detailed surveillance and air defense. These satellites have the infra-red capability to spot small heat sources on the surface of the earth and are time-proven as effective monitoring devices.
At 1400 hours zulu time, an object was spotted by a USDSP satellite and tracked as it sped first directly toward the Earth and passed if front and within 15 miles of the USDSP satellite. It suddenly and without impact or contact with other devices or obstructions curved outward, away from the Earth. It was tracked for another 9 minutes until it then disappeared.
What the data resolved was that it was a hot, fast, solid object that swept in from outer space. This information would probably have been totally kept from public view, but it was leaked.
The statement was "Where it appeared in the (satellite's) sensor field would indicate that the object came into the sensor field from outer-space, went in front of the sensor, and left, departing back into deep space. It would indicate that it was some type of craft that had the ability to maneuver. And there you have hard evidence. You have telemetry from that satellite, you have information, you have systems, you have data that you can go back and investigate and check and verify.
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