Tucked away on the East coast, more than 1,600 miles away from their parent wing, a Schriever geographically separated unit operates the military’s only dedicated weather satellite.
Detachment 1, 50th Operations Group, oversees the command and control of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, the Air Force’s longest-running satellite program, out of Suitland, Maryland.
Every day, this team provides high-resolution global visible and infrared cloud data and other specialized meteorological, oceanographic and solar-geophysical data for the Department of Defense and civilian users worldwide.
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