Space and Missile Operations Officer
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Operates and manages space and missile operations systems, including surveillance, intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch, space lifts, ballistic space warning and satellite command and control.
Duties
Space and missile operations officers coordinate space and missile operations activities and coordinate with national and international space agencies on ICBM, space and satellite launching, as well as space warning, tracking, control and cataloging activities.
Space and missile operations officers operate and control space/missile operations and perform missile combat crew operations. They maintain readiness to execute, then launch ICBMs and apply current directives for targeting, execution and positive control of ICBMs. They initiate, advise and control space and missile combat crew operations and serve as duty controllers in space and missile command posts. Space and missile crews perform satellite position predictions, satellite maneuver planning and orbital analysis and space-based object positioning. They also catalog foreign and domestic space objects, detect continental ballistic missile threats and provide assessment to national military command authorities.
