Air Force Space Command Public Affairs
8/2/2012 - Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. -- As
Air Force Space Command approaches its 30th Anniversary on 1 Sep, here
is a significant milestone from the command's history...
On 7 February 1994, AFSPC launched the first Milstar satellite, a new
generation military satellite communications system, aboard a Titan IV
rocket from Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. The 4th Space Operations Squadron
at Schriever AFB, Colo., is responsible for day-to-day command and
control, communications payload management and ground segment
maintenance for the Air Force's Milstar satellites.
Milstar provides the President, Secretary of Defense and the U.S. Armed
Forces with assured, survivable satellite communications (SATCOM) with
low probability of interception and detection. Designed to overcome
enemy jamming and nuclear effects, Milstar is currently the most robust
and reliable operational SATCOM system currently employed by the
Department of Defense. The follow-on to Milstar is the Advanced
Extremely High Frequency satellite system, which will provide a
ten-times increase in global communication capacity over the current
Milstar system.
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