space command
Military celestial oversight
Space command refers to a military organization responsible for operations in outer space—satellite surveillance, missile warning systems, and coordination of space-based assets.
The U.S.
Space Command oversees American military space operations: Space Command tracks thousands of objects in Earth's orbit.
In science fiction, space command often names the authority governing interstellar fleets or stations.
- GPS systemsSatellite-based location technology
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- missile defenseSystem intercepting hostile projectiles
- reusable rocketsSpacecraft meant for repeated launches
- satellite constellationsGrouped orbiting craft arrays
cyber defense · reconnaissance satellites · military satellites · signal encryption · international cooperation · remote sensing · launch window · rocket launch · peaceful coexistence · astronomy · weather satellites · interplanetary travel · ground control · solar sails · telescopes · satellite imaging · Mars colonization · NORAD
- Command Centerscontrol room, control center, operations center, mission control, war room
- military bureausPentagon, NSA, CIA, DOD, defense department
- Air Force unitsair wing, squadron
- military commandsattention, halt, fall back, advance, attack
space commandground forces
Military troops on land
army · naval command · infantry · ground troops · coastal defense
space, command, spaces, spaced, spacing, spacious, spaciousness, spatial, spatially