Orbital warfare officer

Orbital Warfare: Knowledge of orbital maneuver as well as offensive and defensive fires to preserve freedom of access to the domain. Skill to ensure United States and coalition space forces can continue to provide capability to the Joint Force while denying that same advantage to the adversary.

Orbital Warfare involves monitoring state of health and performing commands on satellite constellations such as MILSTAR, GPS, DSCS, and WGS. All satellite Command and Control for the Space Force is conducted at Schriever SFB in Colorado Springs, CO and Buckley SFB in Denver, CO.

Space warfare is hypothetical combat in which one or more belligerents are situated in outer space. The scope of space warfare therefore includes ground-to-space warfare, such as attacking satellites from the Earth; space-to-space warfare, such as satellites attacking satellites; and space-to-ground warfare, such as satellites attacking Earth-based targets. Space warfare in fiction is thus sub-genre and theme of science fiction, where it is portrayed with a range of realism and plausibility.

As of 2023, no actual warfare is known to have taken place in space, though a number of tests and demonstrations have been performed. International treaties are in place that attempt to regulate conflicts in space and limit the installation of space weapon systems, especially nuclear weapons.

From 1985 to 2002 there was a United States Space Command, which in 2002 merged with the United States Strategic Command, leaving the United States Space Force (formerly Air Force Space Command until 2019) as the primary American military space force. The Russian Space Force, established on August 10, 1992, which became an independent section of the Russian Armed Forces on June 1, 2001, was replaced by the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces starting December 1, 2011, but was reestablished as a component of the Russian Aerospace Forces on August 1, 2015. In 2019 India conducted a test of the ASAT missile making it the fourth country with that capability, and in April of that year, the Indian Armed Forces established the Defence Space Agency.

The United States Space Force (USSF) requires diversity of backgrounds and experiences among its officer corps. And while the current requirement for new USSF space operations officers is a science, technology, math, or engineering degree, we see how, starting in 2023, opportunities for professionals in other areas of human knowledge have expanded, such as anthropology, sociology and philosophy. The emphasis placed on engineering is based on the value of technically oriented skills and engineering style problem solving. However, these skills are not the exclusive domain of these graduates of technical careers and can also be found in students of other academic disciplines. There are also other intrinsic skills in the humanities, liberal arts, and social sciences that would contribute to the success of the USSF. To prevail in an ever-changing environment and to help foster the intellectual diversity of its Guardians, the USSF has been diversifying degree requirements and utilizing a comprehensive recruitment process for its Space Operations Officers.

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