Accession Number:

ADA295142

Title:

SPACECAST 2020, Volume 1.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL

Personal Author(s):

• Kelley, Jay W.

Report Date:

1992-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

486.0

Abstract:

SPACECAST 2020 was a Chief of Staff of the Air Force CSAF-directed space study, challenged to identify and conceptually develop high-leverage space technologies and systems that will best support the warfighter in the twenty-first century. The study produced a series of white naners which have been assembled into clusters of concern for future space capabilities. Volume I consists of 11 unclassified white papers Leveraging the Infosphere Surveillance and Reconnaissance in 2020 Space Traffic Control The Culmination of Improved Spave Operations 21st Century Weather Support Architecture Space-Based Solar Monitoring and Alert Satellite System Space Weather Support for Communications Spacelift Suborbital, Earth to Orbit, and On Orbit Unconventional Spacelift Rapid Space Force Reconstitution RASEOR Space Modular Systems Professional Military Education PME in 2020 and Preparing for Planetary Defense Detection and Interception of Asteroids on Collision Course with Earth. The Volume also contains an Operational Analysis and listings of Project Contributors and Project Participants.

Descriptors:

• *SPACE TECHNOLOGY
• AIR FORCE
• DETECTION
• DEFENSE SYSTEMS
• WEATHER
• EDUCATION
• EARTH ORBITS
• SPACE SYSTEMS
• INTERCEPTION
• MODULAR CONSTRUCTION
• ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES
• ARCHITECTURE
• RECONNAISSANCE
• SPACE WARFARE
• WARNING SYSTEMS
• ASTEROIDS
• PLANETS

Subject Categories:

• Astronautics
• Unmanned Spacecraft

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE