The Changing Role of the U.S. Military Space

by Gonzales, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780833026613
• ISBN10: 0833026615
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-03
• Publisher: RAND Corporation

Summary

Discusses the growth in the technical capabilities of commercial and foreign space systems, potential explotation of space by adversaries, increasing use of commercial space capabilities by U.S. forces, and continuing budget constraints are all changing the role of U.S. military in space.

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Figures	vii
Tables	ix
Summary	xi
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Growth in Non-DoD Space Capabilities	1	(12)
Commercial Communications Satellite Market Growth Trends	1	(4)
Low Data Rate Systems	3	(1)
LEO and MEO Voice Systems	4	(1)
High Data Rate Bandwidth-on-Demand (BOD) Systems	5	(1)
Remote Sensing Satellite Market Growth Trends	5	(6)
U.S. Civil and Commercial Remote Sensing Satellites	6	(2)
Foreign Remote Sensing Satellites	8	(3)
Satellite Navigation Services	11	(2)
Impact of Emerging Space Capabilities on Military Operations	13	(12)
Exploitation of Space by Adversaries	13	(5)
Communications Satellites	13	(2)
Remote Sensing Satellites	15	(3)
Use of Commercial Space Systems by the U.S. Military	18	(7)
Communications Satellites	18	(5)
Remote Sensing Satellites	23	(2)
The Space Control Debate	25	(20)
Space Control	25	(1)
The Cold War Space Control Debate	26	(2)
Space Control in the Post--Cold War Era	28	(2)
Defensive Space Control Measures	30	(3)
Satellite Survivability Enhancements	30	(1)
Policy Measures	31	(1)
Anti-ASAT Weapons or Operations	31	(2)
Offensive Space Control Measures	33	(12)
Policy Measures	33	(3)
Destructive ASATs	36	(4)
Nondestructive Space Control Systems	40	(5)
Changing Space Surveillance Needs	45	(10)
Space Surveillance During the Cold War	45	(1)
The U.S. Space Surveillance Network	46	(1)
Future Space Surveillance Needs	47	(8)
Space Debris Monitoring and Warning	48	(1)
Coordiantion of Satellite Operations	49	(1)
Space Surveillance and Space Control	50	(5)
References	55