The 1st Space Brigade, the Army’s sole space brigade, manages space capabilities and personnel to ensure the joint force can effectively deploy, engage and triumph in high intensity, multidomain conflicts against any adversary. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the brigade maintains a global presence across six locations in six countries and five time zones. The diverse multicomponent force, comprising Soldiers and civilians from various backgrounds and branches, supports combat operations worldwide 24/7/365.
Activated in 2005, the 1st Space Brigade filled a critical gap of incorporating space-based capabilities such as theater missile warning, GPS, and long-haul satellite communications into warfighter planning efforts and advising on ways to operate in and through a degraded space operating environment. Since then, they have added space control planning and space control mission areas to their portfolio. The brigade serves Army, joint and coalition warfighters worldwide through the activities of two subordinate battalions and two associated unit relationships. The subordinate battalions include the 1st Space Battalion, which stood up in 1999, and the 2nd Space Battalion, which stood up in 2017.
The brigade has associated unit relationships with the Colorado Army National Guard’s 117th Space Battalion, which stood up in September 2001, and five missile defense batteries stationed in U.S. Indo-Pacific, European, and Central Commands. These batteries operate AN/TPY-2 radars in forward-based mode, conducting ballistic missile search, track, and discrimination operations in support of regional and homeland defense. The Forward-Based Mode Radar also enables space operations by conducting data collection.
The 1st Space Brigade is in constant support of combat operations worldwide. The capabilities the 1st Space Brigade Soldiers leverage in space translate to mission success across all domains and warfighting functions.
1ST SPACE BATTALION
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The 1st Space Battalion, headquartered on Fort Carson, Colorado, plans, integrates, synchronizes and executes space control planning and space control in support of the Army, combined and joint forces.
The battalion generates and provides space combat power for Army and joint forces to conduct multidomain planning and operations. The battalion supports the nation’s strategic land power to fight in, from and through space. It provides teams of expert Soldiers, trained as space professionals who understand how to plan, fight and win. The capabilities provided by the 1st Space Battalion play a critical role in the Army’s strategy to conduct combined arms warfare across all domains.
The battalion postures to meet operational requirements with trained and ready space forces capable of meeting the demands of modern warfare and leading multidomain warfighting efforts across all levels of war. It consists of a Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Space Company with seven space control planning teams, 4th and 18th Space Companies with space control platoons, and the 24th Missile Defense Service Battery.
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2ND SPACE BATTALION
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The 2nd Space Battalion, the U.S. Army Reserve’s only citizen-Soldier space battalion, is based at Fort Carson, Colorado, and represents citizen Soldiers from 39 of the 50 states. As part of the 1st Space Brigade, the battalion’s mission is to plan, integrate, synchronize and execute space situational awareness, space technical operations support, electronic reconnaissance and assigned contingency activities in support of the Army, joint and combined forces, and civil authorities.
The 2nd Space Battalion comprises a Headquarters and Headquarters Company and the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th and 23rd Space Companies.
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117TH SPACE BATTALION
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The 117th Space Battalion is the Army National Guard’s only space battalion and one of only two Army space support team providers within all components of the U.S. Army. The battalion comprises 125 citizen Soldiers of the Colorado National Guard and is organized into three companies: the 217th Space Company, the 1158th Space Company, and the Headquarters and Headquarters Company. Each space company is organized into six Army Space Supports Teams, or ARSSTs, with two commissioned space operations officers and four enlisted space cadre Soldiers.
The battalion is under the administrative and operational control of the Colorado National Guard’s 100th Missile Defense Brigade and receives training/readiness oversight and certification support from the active component’s 1st Space Brigade.
https://co.ng.mil/Army/Space-Support-Bn/
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