The Defense Support Program (DSP) is a program of the United States Space Force that operated the reconnaissance satellites which form the principal component...
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units including the U.S. Space Force's Space Delta 4 (flies the Defense Support Program and Space-Based Infrared System constellations from Buckley SFB...
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DSPS may refer to: Defense Support Program Satellite, a system for detecting ballistic missile launch and nuclear warhead detonation. Delayed sleep phase...
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United States Armed Forces (redirect from United States Defense Force)
include the Defense Support Program and Space-Based Infrared System (SIBRS) spacecraft, which use infrared sensors to conduct missile defense and missile...
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DARPA (redirect from Defense Advanced Research Project Agency)
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for...
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NORAD (redirect from North American Air Defense Command)
five systems are: the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System; the Defense Support Program (DSP) formerly called Project 647; the Forward Scatter over the...
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The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is both a defense agency and a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) for...
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Critical Infrastructure Program (PCII), the Domestic Preparedness Support Initiative, and the Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP). The deputy assistant...
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satellites Two DSCS-III (Defense Satellite Communications System) communications satellites in one mission A Defense Support Program satellite An interplanetary...
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Early warning satellite (section Programs)
difficult to jam. Among the major EWS systems are the United States' Defense Support Program, Russia's (originally launched while still the USSR Oko fleet,...
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detection of missile launches and nuclear detonations using U.S. Defense Support Program satellites in geostationary orbits. The name Nurrungar derives...
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Space Group operates the Air Force's strategic survivable, mobile Defense Support Program ground station. The group provides endurable missile warning detection...
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United States Space Force (category Military space program of the United States)
directly support NASA's Artemis program as it returns to the Moon and track potentially hazardous near-Earth objects in support of planetary defense operations...
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and development program called TALON SHIELD. The program was tasked to improve and enhance sensor processing from Defense Support Program (DSP) spacecraft...
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SCUDs was provided by the Defense Support Program and weather forecasting through the Defense Meteorological Support Program. Space forces operations were...
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Pine Gap (redirect from Joint Defense Space Research Facility)
set aside for the United States Air Force's control station for Defense Support Program satellites that monitor heat emissions from missiles, giving first...
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The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is a combat support agency in the United States Department of Defense (DoD). The agency is staffed by more than 26,000...
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target vehicle. In 1963, the Space Systems Division began the Defense Support Program, which was intended to succeed where MIDAS failed and create an...
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sequence was as follows:[citation needed] Enemy launch detected by Defense Support Program satellites, sensing the hot infrared exhaust of the ICBM booster...
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Patriot Games (1987) Spaceflight portal Aerial reconnaissance Defense Support Program (U.S.) European Union Satellite Centre List of intelligence gathering...
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Vela (satellite) (category Military space program of the United States)
Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites. In the late 1980s, it was augmented by the Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites. The program is...
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Cheyenne Mountain Complex (category North American Aerospace Defense Command)
regarding "simulated [nuclear] detonation messages…injected into the Defense Support Program Data Distribution Center [was] not adequate...". The Combatant...
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History of the United States Space Force (section Crewed military spaceflight programs and military support to NASA)
in Greenland, Clear Air Force Station, the Defense Meteorological Support Program, Defense Support Program, as well as the Military Strategic and Tactical...
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The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) monitors meteorological, oceanographic, and solar-terrestrial physics for the United States Department...
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STS-44 (category Department of Defense Space Shuttle missions)
mission was dedicated to the Department of Defense. The unclassified payload included a Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite, DSP-16 attached to Inertial...
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Aegis ballistic missile defense system (Aegis BMD or ABMD), also known as Sea-Based Midcourse, is a Missile Defense Agency program under the United States...
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coverage of the Soviet Union until the project was replaced by the Defense Support Program. MiDAS represented one element of the United States's first generation...
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while Republican Senators involved in the program predicted the end cost would be "trillions of dollars." Defense contractors, including SpaceX, Palantir...
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Space-Based Infrared System (category Military space program of the United States)
Department of Defense infrared space surveillance needs through the first two to three decades of the 21st century. The SBIRS program is designed to...
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Joint Tactical Ground Station (category Missile defense)
processing of OPIR data that is directly down linked from the Defense Support Program (DSP) and Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite constellations...
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