2nd Space Warning Squadron

Ils Ne Passeront Pas
(French: "They Shall Not Pass")

CommandersCurrent
commanderLt Col Scott M. Wright

Military unit

The 2nd Space Warning Squadron is part of the Space Delta 4 at Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado. It operates the Space-Based Infrared System satellites conducting global monitoring for significant infrared events.

The squadron's mission is to operate and maintain the Space-Based Infrared System. Additionally, it reports ballistic missile and space launches, nuclear detonations, and infrared data of operational value to the President of the United States, Secretary of Defense, combatant commanders, intelligence agencies, and global warfighters.^[1]

Operations

On 7 January 2020 2nd Space Warning Squadron detected the launches of more than a dozen missiles against US and coalition partners.^[2] This provided crucial warning to the warfighters, which helped them to take cover.^[2]

History

The squadron has operated ground stations set up to control the Defense Support Program (DSP) and Space-Based Infrared System, space-based surveillance systems configured to detect and report ballistic missile launches, space launches, and nuclear detonations since 1992.

Lineage

Constituted as the 2d Space Communications Squadron on 1 May 1992

Activated on 15 May 1992

Redesignated 2d Space Warning Squadron on 1 May 1993^[3]

Assignments

21st Operations Group, 15 May 1992
21st Space Wing, 21 July 1995^[3]
460th Operations Group, unknown – present^[1]

Stations

Buckley Air National Guard Base (now Buckley Space Force Base), Colorado, 15 May 1992 – present^[3]

Systems Operated

Space-Based Infrared System satellites (200x-present)^[1]
Defense Support Program satellites (1992–present)^[3]

List of commanders

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2021)

Lt Col Francois Roy, July 2013^[4]
Lt Col April Wimmer, 7 July 2015^[5]
Lt Col Shannon DaSilva, 11 May 2017
Lt Col Brandon Davenport, 5 June 2019^[6]
Lt Col Michael Mariner, 1 July 2021^[6]
Lt Col Scott M. Wright, 7 July 2023

References

^ ^a ^b ^c No byline. "Buckley AFB Factsheets 460th Operations Group". 460th Space Wing Public Affairs. Archived from the original on February 12, 2008. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
^ ^a ^b Strout, Nathan (September 15, 2020). "US Space Force confirms Space Based Infrared System detected missile attack in January". Defense News.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Robertson, Patsy (September 24, 2008). "Factsheet 31 Fighter Wing (USAFE)". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Archived from the original on 2013-12-31. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
^ "2nd Space Warning Squadron changes command". www.buckley.spaceforce.mil.
^ "2nd Space Warning Squadron changes command". www.buckley.spaceforce.mil.
^ ^a ^b "Change of Command". Facebook.

Bibliography

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

External links

460th Operations Group Fact Sheet

United States Space Force

Leadership

Oversight	House Armed Services Committee Strategic Forces subcommittee Senate Committee on Armed Services Strategic Forces subcommittee

Structure

Field commands	Space Futures Command Space Operations Command Commander Space Systems Command Commander Space Training and Readiness Command Commander
Component Field Commands	United States Space Forces Central United States Space Forces Europe and Africa United States Space Forces Indo-Pacific United States Space Forces Korea United States Space Forces – Space
Deltas	Space Delta 1 Space Delta 2 Space Delta 3 Space Delta 4 Space Delta 5 Space Delta 6 Space Delta 7 Space Delta 8 Space Delta 9 Space Delta 10 Space Delta 11 Space Delta 12 Space Delta 13 Space Delta 15 Space Delta 18 Space Delta 21 Space Delta 23 Space Delta 26 Space Launch Delta 30 Space Launch Delta 45 PNT IMD (P) Space Base Delta 1 Space Base Delta 2 Space Base Delta 3
Squadrons	1st Delta Operations 319th Combat Training 328th Weapons 392d Combat Training 533rd Training 21st Operations Support 15th Space Surveillance 18th Space Defense 19th Space Defense 20th Space Surveillance 3rd Combat Training 4th EW 5th EW 16th EW 23rd EW 2nd Space Warning 3rd satellite Communications 5th Space Warning 6th Space Warning 7th Space Warning 10th Space Warning 11th Space Warning 12th Space Warning 13th Space Warning 55th Combat Training 21st Space Operations 22nd Space Operations 23rd Space Operations 62nd Cyberspace 63rd Cyberspace 64th Cyberspace 65th Cyberspace 68th Cyberspace 69th Cyberspace 645th Cyberspace 71st ISR 72nd ISR 73rd ISR 74th ISR 75th ISR 76th ISR 1st Space Operations 2nd Space Operations 3rd Space Operations 4th Space Operations 10th Space Operations 53rd Space Operations 527th Space Aggressor 1st Test and Evaluation 3rd Test and Evaluation 17th Test and Evaluation 25th Space Range 2nd Space Launch 5th Space Launch 1st Range Operations NSSI
Direct reporting units	Space Development Agency Space Rapid Capabilities Office Space Warfighting Analysis Center

Locations

Space Force Bases	Buckley Los Angeles Patrick Peterson Schriever Vandenberg
Space Bases	Pituffik (Greenland)
Space Force Stations	Cape Canaveral Cape Cod Cavalier Cheyenne Mountain Clear Kaena Point New Boston

Personnel
and training

History and
traditions

Former wings and deltas	21st Space Wing 50th Space Wing 460th Space Wing Space Training and Readiness Delta (Provisional)

Space Operations Command

Air Forces

Fourteenth (Strategic)

Centers

Bases

Stations

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

Space wings

Air Base groups

61st
821st Air Base Group

Squadrons

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 2nd 3d Space Launch Squadron 4th 5th
Space Operations	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 19th 21st 22d 23d 111th 148th AFSPC
Space Warning	2nd 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 Squadron 2d Space Development Squadron 3d Space Development Squadron 3rd Space Experimentation 1st Space Surveillance 3d Space Surveillance 5th Space Surveillance 1st Air and Space Test 2d Test Operations Squadron 3d Space Test Squadron 4th Space Test Squadron 55th Space Weather