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2020-10-22 智邦网
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据Defensenews网报道，10月21日，美太空军宣布，将科罗拉多州彼得森空军基地的空军太空司令部确定为新的“太空作战司令部”（SpOC）总部。
太空作战司令部司令迪金森将军称：“成立太空作战司令部，将大大增强我们的联合太空作战能力，更有效地提供战斗力。”
太空作战司令部是太空军新组建的三大战场司令部之一，另外两个是太空系统司令部和太空训练与战备司令部。
SpOC 负责监督国家军事卫星运营，包括为作战部队提供全球链接的GPS星座、导弹预警卫星及各种通信卫星，是美太空司令部太空部队的业务部门，负责为作战部队提供广泛的轨道平台服务。
太空作战司令部新总部确定后，司令部原址范登堡空军基将作为“太空作战司令部（西部总部）”，继续履行太空司令部联合部队太空分队司令部职能，为作战指挥官、联合部队和联盟伙伴提供太空作战支援。
Space Force establishes the first of three field commands
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force officially has its first field command, after the service redesignated Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado as the new headquarters of Space Operations Command during an Oct. 21 ceremony.
“The establishment of Space Operations Command adds powerful depth to our collective space combat capability,” said Gen. James Dickinson, head of U.S. Space Command “Make no mistake, we are the best in the world in space. With the stand up of Space Operations Command today, we are even better aligned to deliver combat power more effectively.”
Space Operations Command (SpOC) is one of three field commands — alongside Space Systems Command and the Space Training and Readiness Command — the Space Force is establishing. Space Systems Command will be in charge of developing, acquiring and sustaining systems for the service, while Space Training and Readiness Command will provide training and education to the service’s space professionals.
SpOC oversees the operations of the nation’s military satellites. It’s portfolio includes the GPS constellation, missile warning satellites and the various communications satellites that provide war fighters with global connectivity. SpOC is also the Space Force’s service component to U.S. Space Command, ensuring that the 11th combatant command can utilize the services broad array of on orbit platforms.
Shortly after the Space Force was established in Dec. 2019, the 14th Air Force was redesignated as Space Operations Command.
With the new designation of Peterson AFB as SpOC headquarters, the former home of the command, Vandenberg AFB, was activated as SpOC West. SpOC West will retain its mission as U.S. Space Command’s Combined Force Space Component Command, where it provides space war fighting support to the combatant commanders, joint force and coalition partners.
Newly promoted Gen. Stephen N. Whiting, who has been serving as the deputy commander of Space Force headquarters, will lead the new command.
“He is the right leader to become the first commander of the Space Operations Command field command and to accelerate the transformation of space operations,” said Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. John “Jay” Raymond at the ceremony. “Gen. Whiting has mastered command at nearly every echelon, from the 13th Space Warning Squadron in Clear, Alaska, to the 21st Space Wing here at Peterson, to our first commander of the Combined Force Space Component Command.”
Raymond also credited Whiting and his team with standing up the provisional headquarters for U.S. Space Command, the recently reestablished 11th combatant command, and developing the Space Force’s first doctrine: Space Power.
“At this pivotal moment in history, I can think of no more consequential place to serve than in Space Operations Command as we do our part to build our new service while providing our combatant command the majority of the tools it needs to ensure the protection and defense of the United States and allied interests in space,” said Whiting.
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