How US Air Force Space Command Optimizes Long-Term Investment in Space Systems

Editorial: Seizing the High Ground Editor-in-chief

History is replete with examples of armies and empires whose military success was a direct result of their technical supremacy. The Roman Empire's expertise in road building allowed them to keep their armies supplied during campaigns. Half of the world's people were subjects of the British Empire at its pinnacle ; due in large part to their ships, which enabled them to project force around the ...

Human engineering principles of design for in-space maintenance.

On Space-Power Separatism

commander of coa li tion air forces during Opera tion De­ sert Storm and later head of Air Force Space Command and US Space Command (CINCS PACE), created something of a stir when he questioned whether the US Air Force should continue to run military space sys­ tems: " If the Air Force clings to its owner ship of space, then tradeoffs will be made between air and space, when in fact the tradeoff...

Deep space missions and the issue of overcoming the problem of space radiation

As a member of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), Iran has a long-term space exploration program. Space radiation is one of the challenges facing humans when they go outside Earth's protective atmosphere and magnetic field. Space is an environment that the cardinal principles of radiation protection i.e. time, distance and shielding cannot be effectively ...

Navy Calibration of the Us Space Surveillance Network Using Satellite Laser Ranging

A Special Perturbations Space Object Catalog is currently maintained at Naval Space Command with a weighted batch least squares estimator. The first and second central moments of the satellite observation errors are required by these normal equations in the form of an observation error covariance matrix. Accurate orbits, estimated from satellite laser ranging, provide a suitable reference from ...