Paper Session IV-A - Optimum Military Space Force Structure Characteristics
Launch Responsiveness
Session Chairman: William S. Files, Deputy Director, Titan IV System Program Office, Deputy
Commander for Launch Systems, Space Division, Los Angeles, CA
Session Organizer: Gary Spirnak, 6555th Aerospace Test Group, Patrick Air Force Base, FL
Description
This paper describes the characteristics of operational military space systems in the conceptual (year 2015) future. Many studies have been completed in recent years, and more are currently underway. All seem to have arrived at similar conclusions, however. Therefore, this paper summarizes what appears to have become a shared vision of the future.
Air Force Space Policy tells us that there are four mission areas for activity: Space Support, Force Enhancement, Space Control, and Force Application. The shared vision described here covers only the first two. Desired characteristics of launch vehicles, satellite control systems, and those spacecraft designed to assist terrestrial forces are presented.
Paper Session IV-A - Optimum Military Space Force Structure Characteristics
This paper describes the characteristics of operational military space systems in the conceptual (year 2015) future. Many studies have been completed in recent years, and more are currently underway. All seem to have arrived at similar conclusions, however. Therefore, this paper summarizes what appears to have become a shared vision of the future.
Air Force Space Policy tells us that there are four mission areas for activity: Space Support, Force Enhancement, Space Control, and Force Application. The shared vision described here covers only the first two. Desired characteristics of launch vehicles, satellite control systems, and those spacecraft designed to assist terrestrial forces are presented.
