23rd Space Operations Squadron

Emblem of 23rd SOPS

The 23rd Space Operations Squadron (23 SOPS) is a United States Air Force unit of the 50th Network Operations Group, itself a part of the 50th Space Wing, and is located at New Boston Air Force Station, New Hampshire.

Mission

The 23rd Space Operations Squadron is one of eight Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) Remote Tracking Stations, providing United States Strategic Command with critical satellite command and control capability to more than 150 Department of Defense, national and civilian satellites performing intelligence, weather, navigation, early-warning and communications operations.

The 23rd SOPS provides access to space and cyberspace by operating and maintaining the largest AFSCN remote tracking station at New Boston Air Force Station in New Hampshire. The squadron provides on-orbit tracking, telemetry, commanding and mission data retrieval services. The squadron also operates and maintains a Defense Satellite Communications System, Heavy Earth Terminal, and Defense Meteorological Satellite Program for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

Air Forces	Fourteenth Twenty-Fourth

Centers	Space and Missile Systems Space Innovation and Development 614th Air and Space Operations 624th Operations Air Force Network Integration

Bases	Buckley Los Angeles Patrick Peterson Schriever Thule Vandenberg

Stations	Cape Canaveral Cape Cod Cavalier Cheyenne Mountain Clear Eldorado (closed) Kaena Point New Boston Onizuka (closed)

Wings

Groups

Air Base	61st

Combat Communications	3d 5th 201st 226th 254th 281st

Cyberspace Engineering Installation	38th

Information Operations	318th

Network Operations	26th

Network Support	690th

Network Warfare	67th

Squadrons

Combat Communications	3d 5th 23d 31st 32d 33d 34th 35th 42d 51st 52d 53d 54th 55th 147th 221st 232d 236th 239th 242d 263d 264th 265th 267th 269th 271st 282d 283d 291st 292d 293d

Command and Control	1st 2d 3d 4th 55th Mobile 119th 153d 222d 721st Mobile

Space Control	1st 4th 16th 20th 25th 76th 380th

Space Launch	1st 2d 3d 4th 5th

Space Operations	1st 2d 3d 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 19th 21st 22d 23d 111th 148th AFSPC

Space Warning	2d 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 137th 213th

Others	26th Space Aggressor (AFRC) 527th Space Aggressor (ACC) 3d Space Communications 50th Space Communications 850th Space Communications 1st Space Development 2d Space Development 3d Space Development 3d Space Experimentation 1st Space Surveillance 3d Space Surveillance 5th Space Surveillance 1st Air and Space Test 2d Test Operations 3d Space Test 4th Space Test 55th Space Weather

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