{"id":153361,"date":"2012-09-25T15:03:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T19:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123318952"},"modified":"2012-09-25T15:03:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T19:03:39","slug":"afspc-milestone-first-space-based-space-surveillance-satellite-launched-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=153361","title":{"rendered":"AFSPC Milestone: First Space Based Space Surveillance satellite launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123318952\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/100925-F-9999O-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Air Force Space Command is celebrating its 30th Anniversary! Here is a significant milestone from the command&#8217;s history &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On 25 September 2010, the first Space Based Space Surveillance satellite was launched into a sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., onboard a Minotaur IV rocket. It was the first space-based Space Situational Awareness sensor to be added to AFSPC&#8217;s Space Surveillance Network.<\/p>\n<p>The SBSS is part of the United States Strategic Command&#8217;s Space Surveillance Network and is operated by the 1st Satellite Operations Squadron at Schriever AFB, Colo. The SBSS satellite is the only space-based sensor in the network, operating 24-hours a day, 7-days a week collecting metric and Space Object Identification data for man-made resident space objects without the disruption of weather, time of day and atmosphere that can limit ground-based systems.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123318952\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}