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Space Force Launches Its 1st Mission With Virus Precautions

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The newly established U.S. Space Force launched its first national security satellite Thursday with a leaner staff because of the coronavirus pandemic.

"Nothing stops the space launch mission!" the 45th Space Wing tweeted from Cape Canaveral.

The approximately $1 billion satellite is the sixth and final one in the U.S. military's Advanced Extremely High Frequency series. Upgraded from the older Milstar satellites, the constellation has provided secure communication from 22,000 miles (35,400 kilometers) up for nearly a decade.
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Our new Space Force blasts off with a new national security communications satellite.
 
Where are the first 44 Space Wings stationed?
 
Oh goody, another spy satellite.

Heaven forbid if there should ever be an all out global war...I would think the communication and spy satellites would be among the first targets. I can't even imagine the havoc that would wreak.
 
With lots of computers on board, I feel comfortable loudly declaring,"Gigs in Space!".

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
 
I’m so glad we got rid of the Pandemic Response Team and made sure to get a Space Force instead.

Considering Earth is undergoing a massive alien invasion right now and not a pandemic shows just how smart that decision was.
 
Questerr said:
I’m so glad we got rid of the Pandemic Response Team and made sure to get a Space Force instead.
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That group only existed for about 3 years, and was seen by many at the time as a bloated organization, that was operating outside of it's area (it was run by the NSC). Since it was disbanded in 2018, the tasks were returned to the CDC (normal pandemics), and the Army (ones of a military origin).

I for one never understood that even when it was done in the first place. Why in the hell was a group in the National Security Council made to deal with diseases? That is utterly retarded, that is what we have the Center for Disease Control and Prevention for in the first place. That is like putting a section in the PUC to monitor car safety, because some cars use electricity and that falls under "Utility".

We already have the CDC&P and USAAMRID, yet another group to oversee something like this was just bureaucratic growth.
 
Oozlefinch said:
That group only existed for about 3 years, and was seen by many at the time as a bloated organization, that was operating outside of it's area (it was run by the NSC). Since it was disbanded in 2018, the tasks were returned to the CDC (normal pandemics), and the Army (ones of a military origin).

I for one never understood that even when it was done in the first place. Why in the hell was a group in the National Security Council made to deal with diseases? That is utterly retarded, that is what we have the Center for Disease Control and Prevention for in the first place. That is like putting a section in the PUC to monitor car safety, because some cars use electricity and that falls under "Utility".

We already have the CDC&P and USAAMRID, yet another group to oversee something like this was just bureaucratic growth.
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Using this same logic, if we already have Air Force Space Command, why do we need a Space Force?
 
Questerr said:
Using this same logic, if we already have Air Force Space Command, why do we need a Space Force?
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It's just more of that conservative small-government stuff. You know, like the Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security.
 
Questerr said:
Using this same logic, if we already have Air Force Space Command, why do we need a Space Force?
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Because the idea is that more will be brought into it. And without the fighting that often comes within a single branch.

After all, why did we need an Air Force, when we already had the Army Air Corps?

One thing about the military, it often is looking to itself before all else. And over the decades, things like ultra long range missile defense has taken a back-seat to things like new bombers and fighters. Things like GBR have long sat way back in the concern of the Air Force. In this way, we have a section dedicated purely to that. Not unlike the Army Air Corps, where the priority was in Close Air Support.

By the end of WWII, it was realized that the needs of the Army were not in keeping with the needs of the country. So the Air Corps got a divorce, and set it's own goals. The same here, a branch dedicated to things that operate above the atmosphere, not just in it. To include ICBMs and ICBM defense.

If the Army had it's way in 1946, we would only now be developing things along the lines of the BUFF. Being a land force, their only main interest was in aircraft that could support their immediate mission.
 
Oozlefinch said:
Because the idea is that more will be brought into it. And without the fighting that often comes within a single branch.

After all, why did we need an Air Force, when we already had the Army Air Corps?

One thing about the military, it often is looking to itself before all else. And over the decades, things like ultra long range missile defense has taken a back-seat to things like new bombers and fighters. Things like GBR have long sat way back in the concern of the Air Force. In this way, we have a section dedicated purely to that. Not unlike the Army Air Corps, where the priority was in Close Air Support.

By the end of WWII, it was realized that the needs of the Army were not in keeping with the needs of the country. So the Air Corps got a divorce, and set it's own goals. The same here, a branch dedicated to things that operate above the atmosphere, not just in it. To include ICBMs and ICBM defense.

If the Army had it's way in 1946, we would only now be developing things along the lines of the BUFF. Being a land force, their only main interest was in aircraft that could support their immediate mission.
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Because the mission had significantly changed from battlefield support to strategic warfare, and by 1947 the US Army Air Force was the size of a separate branch all on its own. It was larger than the 1941 US Army.

What similar change has occurred with space operations that justifies it being its own branch? Are there 400,000 troops working space operations? Do they have space battleships to manage?
 
Questerr said:
Because the mission had significantly changed from battlefield support to strategic warfare, and by 1947 the US Army Air Force was the size of a separate branch all on its own. It was larger than the 1941 US Army.

What similar change has occurred with space operations that justifies it being its own branch? Are there 400,000 troops working space operations? Do they have space battleships to manage?
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Just making that silly statement shows that you are not even interested, you only want to make quotable quips and not even bother to research it yourself before dismissing.

If I have learned one thing long ago, it is that you can lead a horse to knowledge, but you can't make it think.
 
Oozlefinch said:
Just making that silly statement shows that you are not even interested, you only want to make quotable quips and not even bother to research it yourself before dismissing.

If I have learned one thing long ago, it is that you can lead a horse to knowledge, but you can't make it think.
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My point stands. Neither the mission nor the size of Space Force justifies it being its own separate branch. The Air Force only got split off from the Army when it had 1) a mission significantly different than that of the Army, and 2) the size of the separate branch already.
 
Evilroddy said:
With lots of computers on board, I feel comfortable loudly declaring,"Gigs in Space!".

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
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This comes to mind.
 
Rexedgar said:
Numbering the “Space Wing” 45 was random?
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I was saying instead of flights, squadrons, wings, and groups, the space force should have elements, points, stars, clusters, galaxies. Each element would have five pieces of equipment say space craft, 5 elements makes one point, 5 points one star, five stars one cluster and so on. I think thats much more spacy.
 
PirateMk1 said:
I was saying instead of flights, squadrons, wings, and groups, the space force should have elements, points, stars, clusters, galaxies. Each element would have five pieces of equipment say space craft, 5 elements makes one point, 5 points one star, five stars one cluster and so on. I think thats much more spacy.
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You are way out in the weeds. Where are the first “wings,” number 1 through 44, stationed?


Number 45 is important here........
 
Rexedgar said:
You are way out in the weeds. Where are the first “wings,” number 1 through 44, stationed?


Number 45 is important here........
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Helifino. :lamo
 
Questerr said:
My point stands. Neither the mission nor the size of Space Force justifies it being its own separate branch. The Air Force only got split off from the Army when it had 1) a mission significantly different than that of the Army, and 2) the size of the separate branch already.
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And Space and Missile Defense is not a significantly mission than that the Air Force considers as it's prime mission?

That is a key mission (and growing in importance), but to the Air Force, it ranks way down the list of their priorities.
 
Oozlefinch said:
And Space and Missile Defense is not a significantly mission than that the Air Force considers as it's prime mission?

That is a key mission (and growing in importance), but to the Air Force, it ranks way down the list of their priorities.
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No its not. Especially when you consider that missile defense consists of all of ~70 interceptors.
 
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