GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM

Mission

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a constellation of orbiting satellites that provides position, navigation, and timing data to military and civilian users globally. The system is operated and controlled by Space Delta 8, located at Schriever Air Force Base, Colo.

Features

GPS satellites orbit the earth every 12 hours, emitting continuous navigation signals.With the proper equipment, users can receive at least four satellite signals to calculate time, location and velocity. The signals are so accurate, time can be figured to within a millionth of a second, velocity within a fraction of a mile per hour and location to within 100 feet.Receivers have been developed for use in spacecraft, aircraft, ships, land vehicles, and precision-guided munitions, as well as for hand carrying.

GPS provides 24/7/365 navigation services including:

· Extremely accurate,three-dimensional location information(latitude, longitude and altitude), velocity (speed and direction), and precise time

· A worldwide common grid that is easily converted to any local grid system

· Passive all-weather operations

· Continuousreal-timeinformation

· Support to an unlimited number of users and areas

https://www.spaceforce.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Fact-Sheet-Display/Article/2197765/global-positioning-system/

THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. We’re building, right now, incredible military equipment at a level that nobody has ever seen before. We have no choice. We have to do it — with the adversaries we have out there.

We have a — I call it the “super-duper missile.” And I heard the other night, 17 times faster than what they have right now.

SECRETARY ESPER: Yes, sir.

THE PRESIDENT: And you take the fastest missile we have right now — you’ve heard Russia has five times, and China is working on five or six times. We have one 17 times. And it’s just gotten the go-ahead. Seventeen times faster, if you can believe that, General. That’s something, right? Seventeen times faster than what we have right now. Fastest in the world by a factor of almost three.

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COBRA DANE RADAR

Mission

The COBRA DANE radar is a single faced ground-based, L-band phased-array radar located in northern U.S. Indio-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) area of operations and operated by the U.S. Space Force.

The primary mission of COBRA DANE is tocollect radar metric and signature data on foreign ballistic missile eventsduring exo­-atmospheric and early endo-atmospheric portions of flight and on selected space launches in early orbit in support of treaty monitoring, force modernization, and missile defense. Additional missions include collecting space surveillance data on new foreign launches and both known (cataloged) and unknown (uncatalogued) satellites in low-earth orbit for the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Operations Cell.

https://www.spaceforce.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Fact-Sheet-Display/Article/2197716/cobra-dane-radar/

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