space situational awareness

    From Joint Publication 3-14, Space Operations, 10 April 2018:

2. Space Situational Awareness

    a. Situational awareness is fundamental to conducting space operations. SSA is the requisite foundational, current, and predictive knowledge and characterization of space objects and the OE upon which space operations depend – including physical, virtual, information and human dimensions – as well as all factors, activities, and events of all entities conducting, or preparing to conduct, space operations. Space surveillance assets include a mix of space-based and earth-based sensors. SSA is dependent on integrating space surveillance, collection, and processing; environmental monitoring; status of US and cooperative satellite systems; understanding of US and multinational space readiness; and analysis of the space domain. SSA must incorporate understanding of the space capabilities and intent of those that pose a threat to our space operations and space capabilities.

    b. The Joint Space Operations Center (JSPOC) provides a COP to the Joint Force Space Component Commander (JFSCC) to enable broad, shared awareness of the JFSCC’s critical information requirements, status of forces, SSA, and the full range of military activities arranged in time, space, and purpose.

—Joint Publication 3-14, Space Operations, 10 April 2018

table of contents

0. fans of space
1. Space Force
2. response to criticism of Space Force
3. space situational awareness
4. space control
5. protecting satellites
6. space debris
7. navigation warfare
8. surveillance
9. satellite communications
10. environmental monitoring
11. missile warning
12. nuclear detonation detection
13. drones
14. spacelift
15. space academy
16. spaceborne military base
17. asteroid mining
18. disaster relief
19. first contact
20. space warfare
21. spaceborne energy
22. spaceborne food
23. orbital ring
24. moon base
25. colonizing the solar system
26. megastructures
27. T O & E
28. Pence speech
29. history
30. space news