ASCBC(questions and answers)
What report Directed the creation of a Space Cadre? - correct answer ✔✔Space Commission Report
Why does the Army maintain an Army Space Cadre? (3) - correct answer ✔✔DoD Directive
Fulfill Congressional Mandate
Efficacies for Army
What are the 5 Space Mission Areas? (5) - correct answer ✔✔Position, Navigation, Timing (PNT)
Satellite Communications (SATCOM)
Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR)
Missile Warning
Environmental Monitoring
What are the different Army Space units? (6) - correct answer ✔✔1st Space BDE
- 1st Space BN (Active)
-2nd Space BN (Reserve)
-53rd Signal BN (SATCOM)
-117th Space BN (Army National Guard)
100th Missile Defense BDE (GMD)
-49th Missile Defense BN
What is the SMDC Operations Center?
Where is it Located at? - correct answer ✔✔-SMDC Operations Center provides situational awareness,
using global and regional communication resources, IOT maintain current status of USA SMDC forces.
-Located at BLDG 3 Peterson AFB
,Which four Combatant Commands have global responsibility? - correct answer ✔✔-USTRANSCOM
-USSOCOM
-USSTRATCOM
-USCYBERCOM
What are the 7 USSTRATCOM mission areas? - correct answer ✔✔- Space Operations
- Strategic Deterrence
- Nuclear Operations
- Joint Electronic Warfare
- Integrated Missile Defense
- Analysis & Targeting
- Global Strike
Which JFCC is responsible for Space? - correct answer ✔✔JFSCC
What is the name of the JFSCC Space Ops center?
What is the Primary function?
Where is it located? - correct answer ✔✔Combined Space Operations Center (CSPOC)
Coordinates, plans, integrates, syncs and executes space operations.
Located in Vanderberg AFB, CA
The Commander of Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) is also the Commander of which
JFCC? - correct answer ✔✔JFC-IMD
What is the role of the USASMDC/ARSTRAT Commander as the Army Service Component Commander to
USSTRATCOM? - correct answer ✔✔Force Provider
,What are the USASMDC/ ARSTRAT three lines of effort and what is their function? (3) - correct answer
✔✔1- Operations (today)- Provides ready and trained s/m defense forces to warfighters and nation
2- Capability Development (tomorrow) Provides s/m defense with concepts, doctrine and techniques
3- Material Development (day after tomorrow) Provides research and developments to s/m defense
cyber, directed energy and related technology
Where is the USASMDC/ ARSTRAT's operational hub located? - correct answer ✔✔BLDG 3, Peterson AFB,
Colorado Springs, CO
What were the significant contributions of Dr. Robert Goddard - correct answer ✔✔-Father of modern
rocket propulsion
-Developed Mathematical theories for rocket propulsion.
-Developed gyroscope control, vanes, gimball steering, and power driven fuel pumps
What was Dr. Wernher von Braun's contribution? - correct answer ✔✔- Chief architect of the US Space
Program
- Developed the Vergeltungswaffen 2 (V2) Rocket which served as the base for future ballistic missiles
and space launch vehicles.
Describe early U.S. Surveillance programs prior to the launch of our first imagery satellite? Why did the
US develop space-based ISR? - correct answer ✔✔-U2 Dragonlady- High Altitude Surveillance Aricraft
-Progect Genetrix- high Altitude Balloon
-They avoided Over flight issues
When did the U.S. launch a satellite into space?
Who did it?
What was it? - correct answer ✔✔- 1958
- US ARMY
- Explorer 1 (Jupiter C)
, When and how did project Diana prove? - correct answer ✔✔-1946
- That we could bounce signals off the moon to communicate and track missiles above the ionosphere.
Identify the primary goals of the following space programs
Mercury:
Gemini:
Apollo: - correct answer ✔✔Mercury- See the space flight effects on humans and gather more
technological experience.
Gemini- Bridge between Mercury and Apollo. Skills necessary to go to the moo
Apollo- To land man on moon and bring back to earth
In 1961, Alan Shepard was launched into space in a Mercury Redstone 3 Launch vehicle, which illustrated
how early our space program paralleled our? - correct answer ✔✔Ballistic Missile Program
What was the name of the Army satellite launched in 2010, the first army satellite launched since
Explorer 1? - correct answer ✔✔SDMC One - Space and Missile defense command
How are satellites traveling around the earth? - correct answer ✔✔They are falling with gravity
What are the take-aways form Kepler's three laws? (3) - correct answer ✔✔1- Law of orbit- Distance
from Foci to point on the ellipse- Orbit of planets are ellipse with the Sun at a focus
2- Law of Area- Apogee= slow, Perigee= Fast- Orbit of planets sweep out equal areas in equal time
3- Law of Periods- Larger orbits have longer periods
Define basic terms that describes an orbit? (5) - correct answer ✔✔-Period - Time it takes an object to go
around
once.
-Apogee - Further away from earth the slower
-Perigee - Closer to earth the faster
-Prograde - Rotating with earths rotation
What report Directed the creation of a Space Cadre? - correct answer ✔✔Space Commission Report
Why does the Army maintain an Army Space Cadre? (3) - correct answer ✔✔DoD Directive
Fulfill Congressional Mandate
Efficacies for Army
What are the 5 Space Mission Areas? (5) - correct answer ✔✔Position, Navigation, Timing (PNT)
Satellite Communications (SATCOM)
Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR)
Missile Warning
Environmental Monitoring
What are the different Army Space units? (6) - correct answer ✔✔1st Space BDE
- 1st Space BN (Active)
-2nd Space BN (Reserve)
-53rd Signal BN (SATCOM)
-117th Space BN (Army National Guard)
100th Missile Defense BDE (GMD)
-49th Missile Defense BN
What is the SMDC Operations Center?
Where is it Located at? - correct answer ✔✔-SMDC Operations Center provides situational awareness,
using global and regional communication resources, IOT maintain current status of USA SMDC forces.
-Located at BLDG 3 Peterson AFB
,Which four Combatant Commands have global responsibility? - correct answer ✔✔-USTRANSCOM
-USSOCOM
-USSTRATCOM
-USCYBERCOM
What are the 7 USSTRATCOM mission areas? - correct answer ✔✔- Space Operations
- Strategic Deterrence
- Nuclear Operations
- Joint Electronic Warfare
- Integrated Missile Defense
- Analysis & Targeting
- Global Strike
Which JFCC is responsible for Space? - correct answer ✔✔JFSCC
What is the name of the JFSCC Space Ops center?
What is the Primary function?
Where is it located? - correct answer ✔✔Combined Space Operations Center (CSPOC)
Coordinates, plans, integrates, syncs and executes space operations.
Located in Vanderberg AFB, CA
The Commander of Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) is also the Commander of which
JFCC? - correct answer ✔✔JFC-IMD
What is the role of the USASMDC/ARSTRAT Commander as the Army Service Component Commander to
USSTRATCOM? - correct answer ✔✔Force Provider
,What are the USASMDC/ ARSTRAT three lines of effort and what is their function? (3) - correct answer
✔✔1- Operations (today)- Provides ready and trained s/m defense forces to warfighters and nation
2- Capability Development (tomorrow) Provides s/m defense with concepts, doctrine and techniques
3- Material Development (day after tomorrow) Provides research and developments to s/m defense
cyber, directed energy and related technology
Where is the USASMDC/ ARSTRAT's operational hub located? - correct answer ✔✔BLDG 3, Peterson AFB,
Colorado Springs, CO
What were the significant contributions of Dr. Robert Goddard - correct answer ✔✔-Father of modern
rocket propulsion
-Developed Mathematical theories for rocket propulsion.
-Developed gyroscope control, vanes, gimball steering, and power driven fuel pumps
What was Dr. Wernher von Braun's contribution? - correct answer ✔✔- Chief architect of the US Space
Program
- Developed the Vergeltungswaffen 2 (V2) Rocket which served as the base for future ballistic missiles
and space launch vehicles.
Describe early U.S. Surveillance programs prior to the launch of our first imagery satellite? Why did the
US develop space-based ISR? - correct answer ✔✔-U2 Dragonlady- High Altitude Surveillance Aricraft
-Progect Genetrix- high Altitude Balloon
-They avoided Over flight issues
When did the U.S. launch a satellite into space?
Who did it?
What was it? - correct answer ✔✔- 1958
- US ARMY
- Explorer 1 (Jupiter C)
, When and how did project Diana prove? - correct answer ✔✔-1946
- That we could bounce signals off the moon to communicate and track missiles above the ionosphere.
Identify the primary goals of the following space programs
Mercury:
Gemini:
Apollo: - correct answer ✔✔Mercury- See the space flight effects on humans and gather more
technological experience.
Gemini- Bridge between Mercury and Apollo. Skills necessary to go to the moo
Apollo- To land man on moon and bring back to earth
In 1961, Alan Shepard was launched into space in a Mercury Redstone 3 Launch vehicle, which illustrated
how early our space program paralleled our? - correct answer ✔✔Ballistic Missile Program
What was the name of the Army satellite launched in 2010, the first army satellite launched since
Explorer 1? - correct answer ✔✔SDMC One - Space and Missile defense command
How are satellites traveling around the earth? - correct answer ✔✔They are falling with gravity
What are the take-aways form Kepler's three laws? (3) - correct answer ✔✔1- Law of orbit- Distance
from Foci to point on the ellipse- Orbit of planets are ellipse with the Sun at a focus
2- Law of Area- Apogee= slow, Perigee= Fast- Orbit of planets sweep out equal areas in equal time
3- Law of Periods- Larger orbits have longer periods
Define basic terms that describes an orbit? (5) - correct answer ✔✔-Period - Time it takes an object to go
around
once.
-Apogee - Further away from earth the slower
-Perigee - Closer to earth the faster
-Prograde - Rotating with earths rotation
