{"id":74924,"date":"2015-03-02T21:30:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T13:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/us-air-force-controls-sbirs-satellites-with-new-ground-system\/"},"modified":"2015-03-02T21:30:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T13:30:41","slug":"us-air-force-controls-sbirs-satellites-with-new-ground-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/us-air-force-controls-sbirs-satellites-with-new-ground-system\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Controls SBIRS Satellites with new Ground System"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 03-02-2015] The United States <b>Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center <\/b>(SMC) completed a three-day test of the Increment 2 ground system for the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS). SMC and the 460 Space Wing, operator of the SBIRS missile warning satellites demonstrated transmit and receive to and from each of the satellites individually.<\/p>\n<p>The Increment 2 system consolidates control of all SBIRS satellites under one primary Mission Control Station (MCS) with a single backup control station. The previous Increment 1 ground system, in use since 2001, controlled the three satellite types \u2014 Defense Support Program (DSP), Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO), and Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO) \u2014 using separate ground software systems at different locations. In addition to streamlining control, Increment 2 boosts the performance capability of the constellation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe system will increase the warfighter\u2019s ability to better characterize world-wide threats, more accurately determine their launch point and impact points, and alert the [Combatant Commands] COCOMs to an impending attack in time for them to respond appropriately,\u201d said Colonel Mike Guetlein, director of remote sensing systems program office, USAF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 03-02-2015] The United States Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) completed a three-day test of the Increment 2 ground system for the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS). SMC and the 460 Space Wing, operator of the SBIRS missile warning satellites demonstrated transmit and receive to and from each of the satellites individually. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}