Space Situation Center
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Space |
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|---|---|
 Internal association badge (coat of arms) |
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| Lineup | July 1, 2009 |
| Country |
 Germany
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| Armed forces | armed forces |
| Armed forces |
 air force
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| Insinuation |
 Center air operations
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| Seat | Uedem |
| management | |
| Military chief | Colonel i. G. Marc Worch |
| Civil leader | Gerald Braun (DLR e.V.) |
The German Space Situation Center (WRLageZ) based in Uedem was set up on July 1, 2009 and is commanded by a civil-military dual leadership. Its task is to protect German space-based civil systems ( TanDEM-X ) as well as military systems of the Bundeswehr ( SATCOMBw -2 and SAR-Lupe ). For this purpose, all near-earth objects in space are monitored and, if necessary, cleared up in order to create a reliable and unambiguous object catalog and, if necessary, to verify it.
tasks
The impetus for the establishment of the Space Situation Center was provided by the Bundeswehr's basic conceptual ideas on the military use of space published by the General Inspector of the Federal Armed Forces , as well as the conviction that the secure use of space for global military operations is becoming increasingly important. But unrestricted access to space applications has become essential outside of the armed forces as well. International air traffic today depends on satellite navigation and a weather report obtained from weather satellites helps to predict severe weather in good time and to initiate protective measures. Therefore, not only the air force, but also civil agencies such as the German Aerospace Center are involved in the space situation center.
On the military side, the Space Situation Center, together with the National Situation and Command Center for Security in Airspace, is part of the Air Force Operations Center (OPZLw) and part of the Air Force Operations Center .
The civil part of the joint departmental space management center is provided by the space management in the German Aerospace Center. Gerald Braun has headed the facility since 2011 together with alternating military contacts in a dual leadership.
The association badge (coat of arms) also shows the DLR logo on buildings and public appearances.
The tasks in detail are:
- Creation and evaluation of the space situation in cross-departmental cooperation.
- Advising decision-makers on the strategic, operational and, if necessary, tactical level with regard to the space situation and its possible influence on one's own operations management.
- Creation and publication of warnings before collisions with space objects, such as B. meteorites or space debris .
- Creation and provision of forecasts about the entry of objects into the earth's atmosphere and the possible damage potential.
- Creation and publication of warnings before attacks on your own satellites (ground, air and space-based) as well as approaching your own satellites.
- Analyze and evaluate information on rocket launches and space programs as well as armaments activities in the field of ballistic missiles, space weapons and anti-satellite weapons.
- Representation, analysis and evaluation of the system status, the performance data, the service life and the health status of own and external satellite systems (space and ground segments).
- Observing space weather , d. H. the strength of the solar wind because of its effects on satellite systems.
In September 2018, the Space Operations Center put an RC telescope into operation. The GESTRA (German Experimental Surveillance and Tracking Radar) phased array radar system is scheduled to go into full operation on Schmidtenhöhe near Koblenz in 2020 .
ladder
| Period | ladder |
|---|---|
| July 1, 2009 to January 2011 | Colonel i. G. Harald Borst |
| January 2011 to December 2014 | Colonel i. G. Olaf Holzhauer |
| December 2014 | Colonel i. G. Thomas Spangenberg |
| 2017 | Colonel i. G. Marc Worch |
See also
- Space Situational Awareness
- Space Surveillance System
- Planetary Defense Coordination Office
- Planetary Defense
Web links
- Guardian of the orbit - the space situation center (part 1) (on www.luftwaffe.de)
- Guardian of the orbit - the space situation center (part 2) (on www.luftwaffe.de)
- For a sustainable German space travel - the space strategy of the federal government. (PDF; 3.9 MB) Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, November 2010, accessed on February 7, 2018 .
- Cornelius Vogt: Strategic Aspects of German Space Security Policy . Ed .: Jochen Franzke (= WeltTrends Thesis . Volume 13 ). Universitätsverlag Potsdam, Potsdam 2012 ( dgap.org [PDF; 2.6 MB ; accessed on February 7, 2018] Zugl .: Potsdam, Univ., Master's thesis, 2011).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Diana Gonzalez: DLR - Space Administration - State Secretary Brigitte Zypries visits the Space Situation Center in Uedem. Retrieved October 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Space firmly in view luftwaffe.de, accessed on May 20, 2017
- ↑ Bundeswehr: Space Scrap - Bundeswehr researches space debris. February 2, 2017, accessed October 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Space Situation Center: The Mission. Luftwaffe, July 30, 2014, accessed February 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Lars Petersen: 3 questions to Sascha Jagusch. ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: y-punkt.de , December 4, 2014, accessed on January 9, 2015.
- ↑ New telescope for the Luftwaffe luftwaffe.de accessed on October 19, 2018
- ↑ Space surveillance with GESTRA . Fraunhofer FHR, accessed on March 3, 2020.
