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As Amended Through 15 March 2013
mission area includes: operations conducted to protect friendly space capabilities from
attack, interference, or unintentional hazards (defensive space control); operations to
deny an adversary’s use of space capabilities (offensive space control); supported by
the requisite current and predictive knowledge of the space environment and the
operational environment upon which space operations depend (space situational
awareness). See also combat service support; combat support; negation; space;
space systems. (JP 3-14)
space coordinating authority — A commander responsible for coordinating joint space
operations and integrating space capabilities in the operational area. Also called SCA.
(JP 3-14)
space environment — The environment corresponding to the space domain, where
electromagnetic radiation, charged particles, and electric and magnetic fields are the
dominant physical influences, and that encompasses the earth’s ionosphere and
magnetosphere, interplanetary space, and the solar atmosphere. See also ionosphere.
(JP 3-59)
space force application — Combat operations in, through, and from space to influence the
course and outcome of conflict. The space force application mission area includes
ballistic missile defense and force projection. See also ballistic missile; force
protection; space. (JP 3-14)
space force enhancement — Combat support operations and force-multiplying capabilities
delivered from space systems to improve the effectiveness of military forces as well as
support other intelligence, civil, and commercial users. The space force enhancement
mission area includes: intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; integrated tactical
warning and attack assessment; command, control, and communications; positioning,
navigation, and timing; and environmental monitoring. See also combat support;
space. (JP 3-14)
space forces — The space and terrestrial systems, equipment, facilities, organizations, and
personnel necessary to access, use and, if directed, control space for national security.
See also national security; space; space systems. (JP 3-14)
space power — The total strength of a nation’s capabilities to conduct and influence
activities to, in, through, and from space to achieve its objectives. See also space.
(JP 3-14)
space sensor — An instrument or mechanical device mounted on a space platform or space
vehicle for collecting information or detecting activity or conditions either in space or
in a terrestrial medium. See also space. (JP 3-14)
space situational awareness — The requisite current and predictive knowledge of the
space environment and the operational environment upon which space operations
depend — including physical, virtual, and human domains — as well as all factors,
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