Oct. 25, 2024

Celebrating 20 Years of Joint Navigation Warfare Center's Service to National Defense

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — The Joint Navigation Warfare Center celebrated its 20th anniversary with a ceremony that brought together community leaders, congressional leaders, and coalition partners, here, Oct. 23, 2024.

Oct. 25, 2024

S4S ensures safety of spaceflight, return of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. — U.S. Space Forces – Space (S4S) supports NASA human space flight by planning, integrating, executing, and assessing space operations, providing continuous space situational awareness monitoring for the International Space Station and visiting spacecraft. The ability to detect, track, and identify space objects in near real-time provides unique space domain awareness that ensures safety of humans in space and understanding for the United States Space Command Area of Operations. Additionally, S4S provides conjunction analysis and potential collision notifications to NASA and other satellite owner-operators.

Oct. 21, 2024

STAFDEL Vogt visits NSDC

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — Camilla Vogt, left, National Security Advisor to Senator Hickenlooper (D-CO) and U.S. Space Force Col. Stephen Lyon, right, National Space Defense Center director and Space Delta 15 commander, pose for a photo during a visit to the NSDC at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo., Oct. 17, 2024. Vogt received a NSDC mission brief and tour of the operations floor, demonstrating its connection to U.S. Space Forces-Space, U.S. Space Force, and U.S. Space Command to conduct assured global space effects. Vogt visited multiple organizations across the Front Range and gained a deeper understanding of Colorado-based space equities. (U.S. Space Force photo by Dalton Prejeant)

Oct. 10, 2024

Air Marshal Paul Godfrey visits NSDC, DEL 15

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — National Space Defense Center and Space Delta 15 leaders host Air Marshal Paul Godfrey, center, U.S. Space Force Assistant Chief of Space Operations for Future Concepts and Partnerships, during a tour of the NSDC’s Senior Master Sergeant Harold Robert Mosley II operations floor at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo., Oct. 8, 2024. Godfrey is the first Ally to be photographed on the NSDC’s operations floor. Having a foreign officer serve in a position at this level on a service staff is unprecedented and exemplifies commitment to integrating with Allies and partnering to win. (U.S. Space Force photo by Bridget Bonnette)

Oct. 10, 2024

JCO TacSRT support to Hurricane Helene recovery efforts

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. — In support of Hurricane Helene relief effort, the Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Tracking team assigned to U.S. Space Forces – Space Joint Commercial Operations cell, provided imagery analysis to U.S. Northern Command Oct. 3-5, 2024, of road closures, road conditions, and bridges on ground routes between Knoxville, Tennessee, and Asheville, North Carolina.

Oct. 9, 2024

NSDC hosts CORONA Space Immersion Day participants

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — Honorable Peter J. Beshar, General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Air Force, listens to U.S. Space Force Col. Stephen Lyon, National Space Defense Center Director and Space Delta 15 Commander, during a CORONA Space Immersion Day at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo., Oct. 4, 2024. CORONA participants toured the base and interacted directly with U.S. Space Force units to showcase specific USSF mission areas, to include the NSDC. The NSDC, with support from Space Delta 15, is one of two subordinate command and control commands executing operations under the U.S. Space Forces-Space commander’s Combined Joint Force Space Component Commander authorities. The S4S mission is to plan, integrate, conduct, and assess global space operations to deliver combat relevant space effects, in, from, and to space for combatant commanders, coalition partners, the joint force, and the nation. (U.S. Space Force photo by Dalton Prejeant)

Oct. 2, 2024

PDAS Dean visits NSDC, JCO

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Paul Dean, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) in the Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability, U.S. Department of State, visits the National Space Defense Center at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo., Sept. 25, 2024. Dean received an NSDC mission brief to better understand the protect and defend mission and how they detect, characterize and attribute threats to U.S. space assets as well as how the NSDC integrates into larger efforts to share information across DoD and the interagency.(U.S. Space Force photo by Dalton Prejeant)

Sept. 30, 2024

Danish Defence Attaché visits the JCO

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Danish Rear Admiral Damgaard Rousøe, Danish Defence Attaché, right, observes space domain awareness data with U.S. Space Force Lt. Col. Mark Natale, left, Joint Commercial Operations cell director, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Sept. 26, 2024. Currently, Denmark is not a JCO partner, but the visit served as a familiarization visit for the Danish delegation, and an opportunity to explore the potential of integrating commercial sensors into space operations. The JCO uses a “buy” and “exploit” model to capitalize on current, relevant non-classified data from a variety of commercial companies that better enables space operators to receive real-time warning and indications. (U.S. Space Force photo by Dalton Prejeant)

Sept. 29, 2024

Guardians from SpOC and S4S DEL 15 brief STARBASE Academy students at Peterson SFB

PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — U.S. Space Force Maj. Victoria Garcia, Space Operations Command Resource Management and Special Access Programs’ strategic basing chief, and USSF Capt. Derreck Potter, 15th Cyberspace Operations Squadron weapons and tactics flight commander, speak with students at the STARBASE Academy at Peterson Space Force Base, Colo., Sept. 20, 2024. Garcia and Potter spoke with fifth grade students about their respective missions within the U.S. Space Force. The Department of Defense STARBASE’s primary focus is providing fifth graders an introduction to fundamental concepts in STEM to inspire early interest in STEM careers and build a diverse, skilled workforce essential for innovation. This engagement also fosters community trust and support for the USSF’s mission. (U.S. Space Force photo by Tiana Williams)

Sept. 24, 2024

USSF Delta 8 enhances situational awareness through Space Cockpit COP powered by JCO commercial data

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — 4 SOPS and Space Delta 8 integrate Saber Astronautics’ Space Cockpit Battle Management System as their Common Operating Picture.