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Air Force Global Strike Command
Air Force Space Command

Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) is a major command of the United States Air Force. AFSPC is headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. Its current commander is General C. Robert "Bob" Kehler.

Approximately 40,000 people, including 25,400 active-duty military and civilians, and 14,000 contractor employees, perform AFSPC missions. Those 25,400 active-duty personnel are divided into approximately 7,100 military employees and 18,300 civilian employees, although their missions overlap.

AFSPC contributes to United States deterrence through its intercontinental ballistic missile force and plays a vital role tying together and supporting the U.S. military worldwide through the use of many different types of satellites and other space operations.

On October 6, 2008, it was announced that the ballistic missile mission will be transferred to the new Air Force Global Strike Command. At the same time, it was also announced that AFSPC will gain the cyber warfare mission.

Mission

AFSPC describes its mission as being, "To Deliver Space and Missile capabilities to America and its warfighting Commands."[1] AFSPC claims its activities make space reliable to United States warfighters (i.e. forces personnel) by assuring their access to space. In addition, AFSPC believes its ICBM forces deter adversaries contemplating the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

AFSPC has four primary mission areas:

Space forces support involves launching satellites and other high-value payloads into space using a variety of expendable launch vehicles and operating those satellites once in the medium of space.

Space control ensures friendly use of space through the conduct of counterspace operations encompassing surveillance, negation, protection and space intelligence analysis.[2]

Force enhancement provides weather, communications, intelligence, missile warning, and navigation. Force enhancement is support to the warfighter.

Force application involves maintaining and operating a rapid response, land-based ICBM force as the Air Force's only on-alert strategic deterrent.

History

Missile warning and space operations were combined to form Air Force Space Command in 1982. During the Cold War, space operations focused on missile warning, and command and control for national leadership. In 1991, Operation Desert Storm provided emphasis for the command's new focus on support to the warfighter. ICBM forces were merged into AFSPC in 1993.

Possible New Mission

A recent Pentagon report[3] suggested that the command be renamed the Air Force Strategic Command The report suggested that the Air Force place all strategic nuclear bombers in a separate numbered air force (NAF) which would be in charge of all Air Force controlled strategic nuclear weapons, not just ICBMs.[4][5] The Air Force rejected this recommendation on October 6, 2008, and instead decided to create the new Air Force Global Strike Command that would carry out the ICBM and bomber missions.

Organization
Numbered Air Forces

Air Force Space Command has two active Numbered Air Forces (NAFs) and one tentative NAF.

Fourteenth Air Force

The Fourteenth Air Force provides space warfighting forces to U.S. Strategic Command in its capacity as Air Forces Strategic-Space, and is located at Vandenberg AFB, California. It manages the generation and employment of space forces to support U.S. Strategic Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) operational plans and missions.

Twenty-fourth Air Force

The Twenty-fourth Air Force, with the cyber warfare mission, will be activated under AFSPC in the near future, at Lackland Air Force Base.

Direct Reporting Units

AFSPC is the major command providing space forces and trained ICBM forces for U.S. Strategic Command. AFSPC also supports NORAD with ballistic missile warning information, operates the Space Warfare Center to develop space applications for direct warfighter support, and is responsible for the Department of Defense's ICBM follow-on operational test and evaluation program.

Space and Missile Systems Center

The Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles AFB, California, designs and acquires all Air Force and most Department of Defense space systems. It oversees launches, completes on-orbit checkouts, then turns systems over to user agencies. It supports the Program Executive Office for Space on the NAVSTAR Global Positioning, Defense Satellite Communications and MILSTAR systems. SMC also supports the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and the Follow-on Early Warning System. In addition, it supports development and acquisition of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles for the Air Force Program Executive Office for Strategic Systems.

Space Innovation and Development Center

The Space Innovation and Development Center (SIDC) at Schriever AFB, Colorado is also part of the command. The center plays a major role in fully integrating space systems into the operational Air Force. Its force enhancement mission looks at ways to use space systems to support warfighters in the areas of navigation, weather, intelligence, communications and theater ballistic missile warning, and how these apply to theater operations.

Locations

The AFSPC headquarters is a major unit located at Peterson AFB, Colorado. There are 6 AFSPC host bases:

Buckley AFB, Colorado
460th Space Wing
Los Angeles AFB, California
Space and Missile Systems Center
61st Air Base Wing
Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing
Global Positioning Systems Wing
Space-Based Infrared Systems Wing
Launch and Range Systems Wing
Space Superiority Systems Wing
Space Development and Test Wing (Kirtland AFB, New Mexico)
526th ICBM Systems Group (Hill AFB, Utah)
Patrick AFB, Florida
45th Space Wing
Peterson AFB, Colorado
21st Space Wing
821st Air Base Group (Thule Air Base, Greenland)
Schriever AFB, Colorado
50th Space Wing
Space Innovation and Development Center
Vandenberg AFB, California
14th Air Force
30th Space Wing
148th Space Operations Squadron
AFSPC also operates several Air Force Stations for launch support and early warning missions.

Cape Cod Air Force Station, Massachusetts
6th Space Warning Squadron
Cavalier AFS, North Dakota
10th Space Warning Squadron
Cheyenne Mountain AFS, Colorado
Clear Air Force Station, Alaska
13th Space Warning Squadron
New Boston AFS, New Hampshire
23d Space Operations Squadron
Onizuka AFS, California
21st Space Operations Squadron

Space capabilities

Spacelift operations at the East and West Coast launch bases provide services, facilities and range safety control for the conduct of DOD, NASA and commercial launches. Through the command and control of all DOD satellites, satellite operators provide force-multiplying effects—continuous global coverage, low vulnerability and autonomous operations. Satellites provide essential in-theater secure communications, weather and navigational data for ground, air and fleet operations and threat warning. Ground-based radar and Defense Support Program satellites monitor ballistic missile launches around the world to guard against a surprise missile attack on North America. Space surveillance radars provide vital information on the location of satellites and space debris for the nation and the world.

Resources
Satellites
Global Positioning System
Defense Satellite Communications System
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
Defense Support Program
NATO III and IV communications
Fleet Satellite Communications System UHF follow-on
MILSTAR

Launch Vehicles
Delta II
Atlas V
Delta IV

Space Situational Awareness
Air Force Satellite Control Network
Maui Optical Tracking Identification Facility,
Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System
Passive Space Surveillance System
Rapid Attack Identification Detection Reporting System

Ballistic Missile Warning Radars
AN/FPS-115 PAVE PAWS
AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane
AN/FPQ-16 Perimeter Acquisition Radar Characterization System (PARCS)
Sea-based X-band Radar Sea-Based X-Band Radar
Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS)

In popular culture

In the popular TV series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, the Stargate Program is run by the Air Force Space Command. (Stargate Command is a sub-command under the Space Command.) The AF Space Command Patch was worn on the uniform of personnel aboard the Prometheus, Earth's first operational deep space battle cruiser.

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Back in 2005, The New York Times reported that General Lance W. Lord, then commander of AFSPC, told an Air Force conference that "space superiority is not our birthright, but it is our destiny. ... Space superiority is our day-to-day mission. Space supremacy is our vision for the future."
The Militarization of Outer Space: The Pentagon's Space Warriors

It's not as if things aren't bad enough right here on planet earth. What with multiple wars and occupations, an accelerating economic meltdown, corporate malfeasance and environmental catastrophes such as the petroleum-fueled apocalypse in the Gulf of Mexico, I'd say we have a full plate already.

Now the Defense Department wants to up the stakes with new, destabilizing weapons systems that will transform low- and high-earth orbit into another "battlespace," pouring billions into programs to achieve what Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) has long dreamed of: "space dominance."

Indeed, Pentagon space warriors fully intend to field a robust anti-satellite (ASAT) capability that can disable, damage or destroy the satellites of other nations, all for "defensive" purposes, mind you.

Back in 2005, The New York Times reported that General Lance W. Lord, then commander of AFSPC, told an Air Force conference that "space superiority is not our birthright, but it is our destiny. ... Space superiority is our day-to-day mission. Space supremacy is our vision for the future."

Five years on, that "mission" is still a top priority for the Obama administration. While some might call it "net-centric warfare" on steroids, I'd choose another word: madness.

Air Force X-37B

On April 22, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) successfully launched its robot space shuttle, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Sitting atop a Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket, the unmanned, reusable space plane roared into orbit after more than ten years of development by Boeing Corporation's "Phantom Works" black projects shop.

The successful orbital insertion of the X-37B was the culmination of a decades' long dream by the Department of Defense: to field a reusable spacecraft that combines an airplane's agility with the means to travel at 5 miles per second in orbit.

From the Pentagon's point of view, a craft such as the X-37B may be the harbinger of things to come: a johnny-on-the-spot weapons platform to take out the satellite assets of an enemy de jour, or as a launch vehicle that can deliver bombs, missiles or kinetic weapons anywhere on earth in less than two hours; what Air Force wags refer to as "operationally responsive space."

Prior to launch, Air Force Deputy Undersecretary of Space Programs, Gary Payton, ridiculed speculation that the X-37B is the prototype for a new space-based weapons system. Payton told reporters, "I don't know how this could be called a weaponization of space. Fundamentally, it's just an updated version of the space shuttle kinds of activities in space."

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Alfred L. Webre acusa a Hawking de impulsar una guerra contra seres hiperdimensionales

Webre: La inteligencia Militar británica, dice este abogado metido a ufólogo extremo, pretende "lavar el cerebro a la población mundial para que, llevada por el miedo, respalde la Militarización del espacio y acepté una posible Guerra de bandera falsa contra una civilización extraterrestre.
Kamus: Esto que comenta Webre sobre lo dicho por Stephen Hawking del supuesto peligro ET segun mi opinión puede significar 2 cosas:

1- USA se prepara para el engaño de la Falsa Invasión ET (Proyecto Blue Beam).
2- Que una civilización ET positiva se aparecera proximamente en la Tierra pero la Elite quiere repelerla y atacarlos mediante la Militarización del espacio con Satelites con armas laser, transbodadores espaciales armados como el X-37B Orbital, etc.

Lo que esta claro es que estas declaraciones de Hawking no son hechas por azar algo se cuece y no olvidemos lo de la conferencia sobre vida ET en el Vaticano realizada en estos meses.