SPACE COMMAND Will Integrate Military Capabilities

摘要

SPACE HAS OFTEN been called "the final frontier." During a visit late last year by Vice President Mike Pence to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, he referred to the U.S. Space Command as a critical portion of this country's armed forces. Prior to the launch of the Vespucci third-generation GPS (GPS Ⅲ) satellite, during a Dec. 18 visit to the Florida facility, Pence referred to Space Command as a work in progress that will integrate many different military space capabilities from all branches of the military. "It will serve alongside other functional commands like Strategic Command and Special Operations Command, and it will be led by a four-star flag officer," he said. "It will establish unified control over all our military space operations."