45th Operations Group - Components

Components

• 45th OG Standardization & Evaluation

• 1st Range Operations Squadron (1 ROPS)

Provides to its world-wide customers: range operations, operations support management, and scheduling services.

• 114th Range Operations Squadron (114 ROPS), Florida Air National Guard

Air National Guard associate unit to 1 ROPS

• Det 1, Antigua Air Station, West Indies

Provides telemetry and radar tracking data to support space launches out of the Eastern Range. When not supporting space launches, it provides radar tracking data for locating and cataloging space objects in support of U.S. Space Command's Space Surveillance Network.

• Det 2, Ascension Auxiliary Air Field

Provides telemetry and radar tracking data to support space launches out of the Eastern Range. When not supporting its primary mission, the unit has the secondary mission of providing radar tracking data for locating and cataloging space objects in support of the United States Space Command Space Surveillance Network.

• Det 3, Human Space Flight Support

Detachment 3, 45th Operations Group, Patrick AFB, FL coordinates DOD contingency support for United States human space flight programs. Chartered in 1959 by the Secretary of Defense as the DOD Mercury Support Office (later renamed DOD Manned Space Flight Support Office (DDMS)), it provides support to the U.S. human space flight effort. Since its inception the office has continued to be the principle facilitator for all DOD contingency support to Projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo; the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project; the Space Shuttle Program, the International Space Station (ISS)/Soyuz Program; the Orion Program; and the Presidential commercial space initiative.

• 45th Operations Support Squadron (45 OSS)

Promote assured access to space to fulfill war-fighting, CINC and national requirements by providing policy decisions, training, and airfield operations for the 45th Operations Group, while managing all airfield and air traffic control services for the 45th Space Wing.

• • 45th Launch Operations Support Flight

Provides behind-the-scenes support for all launches. Acting as protocol, the launch operations support flight helps coordinate tours and launch viewing for distinguished visitors and coordinating launch critical briefings and conferences.

• • 45th Airfield Operations Flight

Manages the Patrick AFB airfield and provides air traffic control services in support of the space range and the National Airspace System.

• • Current Operations Flight

Coordinates and implements Wing-level policies and procedures which provide the structure for launch operations.

• • Spacelift Operations Training Flight

Provides Wing training policy and guidance for more than 100 space launch operators.

• 45th Range Management Squadron (45 RMS)

Provide operations and maintenance services for all range instrumentation and critical launch facilities and quality assurance support to wing and delegated contractual efforts

• 45th Space Communications Squadron (45 SCS)
• 45th Weather Squadron