2d Command and Control Squadron
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The
USSPACECOM and theater warfighters’ requirements through continuous all-weather, day-night surveillance of on-orbit satellites.[1]
Mission
The 2 CACS was responsible for planning, assessing, and developing execution orders for passive surveillance missions around the world, at locations such as
Information from the sites' Low Altitude Surveillance System (LASS) and Deep Space Tracking System (DSTS) were fed to 2 CACS, which was then forwarded onto the space surveillance center at
Cheyenne Mountain AFS, Colorado. The center uses this data, along with data from other sensors, to maintain a catalog of man-made objects in space.[5][6]
Assignments
Major Command
- Air Force Space Command(???- ???)
Previous designations
- 2d Command and Control Squadron (???)
Commanders
Bases stationed
- Schriever AFB, Colorado(???-???)
Equipment Commanded
- Low Altitude Surveillance System (???-???)[9]
- Detachment 1, Republic of Korea
- 5th SSS - RAF Feltwell, United Kingdom
- 17 SSS - RAF Edzell, United Kingdom
- Detachment 1,
- Deep Space Tracking System (???-???)
- Misawa AB, Japan
- 5th SSS - RAF Feltwell, United Kingdom
Decorations
- Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
See also
- 3d Space Surveillance Squadron
- 5th Space Surveillance Squadron
- 17th Space Surveillance Squadron
References
- ^ Air University Space Primer: Space Surveillance Theory and Network
- ^ Storming Media: Space Tactics Bulletin, Vol 5, Issue 3, 1998
- ^ FAS.org: National Security Space Road Map, Jul 1999
- ^ FAS.org: National Security Space Road Map, Jul 1999
- ^ Globalsecurity.org: 5th Space Surveillance Squadron
- ^ Air University Space Primer: Space Surveillance Theory and Network
- ^ AFHRA FOIA Req 09-0061: 21st Space Wing Roster of Key Personnel (as of 31 December 1996)
- ^ FAS.org: 21st Space Wing Staff Directory, 1995
- ^ Air University Space Primer: Space Surveillance Theory and Network
- ^ AFSPC Special Order GA-62, 6 December 1999
- ^ AFSPC Special Order GA-58, 6 December 1999
- ^ AFSPC Special Order GA-09, 1 November 1997
External links
- Western States Legal Foundation: National Security Space Road Map, 1998
- Globalsecurity.org: 21st Space Wing
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