SBSS flies past 4th anniversary

Members of the 1st Space Operations Squadron gathered to celebrate the Space Based Space Surveillance satellite’s fourth anniversary on orbit recently.

The event not only provided an opportunity for squadron members and leaders to celebrate mission success, it also helped fortify a new identity for 1 SOPS, which has transitioned into a space based space situational awareness squadron in the past 12 months.

While the squadron has commanded and controlled SBSS since it reached orbit in September 2010, it also gained a new SSA system, the Geosynchronus Space Situational Awareness Program, this past summer.
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