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  • Defense Satellite Communications System

    MissionAs the legacy backbone of the U.S. military's global satellite communications capabilities, the Defense Satellite Communications System constellation provides nuclear-hardened, anti-jam, high-data rate, long-haul communications to users worldwide.DSCS supports: the defense communications

  • Defense Support Program (DSP) Satellites

     Mission The Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites provide early warning for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) and tactical launches. This once classified satellite was first launched in 1970 and became the first of 23 to be launched over the next 37 years. DSP satellites use infrared

  • Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

    Mission The DMSP mission is to collect and disseminate global, high-resolution visible & thermal cloud cover imagery, and other critical air, land, sea, and space environment data to Department of Defense (DoD) forces and the intelligence community (IC).  DMSP data is also furnished to the civilian

  • DELTA II LAUNCH VEHICLE

    MissionThe Delta II is an expendable launch, medium-lift vehicle used to launch Global Positioning System satellites into orbit, providing navigational data to military users. Additionally, the Delta II launches civil and commercial payloads into low-earth, polar, geosynchronous transfer and

  • Directions to Vandenberg SFB Main Gate

    Coming from the South on Highway 101 Approximately 22 miles north of Santa Barbara, and one mile past the Goleta tunnel, take the Highway 1 exit.Follow Highway 1 to Lompoc, approximately 24 miles north. Highway 1 connects to Highway 246 at Ocean Ave. in Lompoc; turn left and follow Ocean Ave. to H

 

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