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Onizuka Air Force Station. / 37.404861°N 122.028750°W / 37.404861; -122.028750. Onizuka Air Force Station or Onizuka AFS was a United States Air Force installation in Sunnyvale, California, at the intersection of State Route 237 and North Mathilda Avenue. [ 1] It operated from 1960 to 2010.
Moffett Federal Airfield ( IATA: NUQ, ICAO: KNUQ, FAA LID: NUQ ), also known as Moffett Field, is a joint civil-military airport located in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County, California, United States, between northern Mountain View and northern Sunnyvale. On November 10, 2014, NASA announced that it would be leasing 1,000 acres (400 ...
Current. commander. Lt Col Matthew Knepper. The 21st Space Operations Squadron ( 21 SOPS) is a satellite control unit of the Space Delta 6 of the United States Space Force, located at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Prior to July 2020, it was part of the 50th Network Operations Group. It operated Onizuka Air Force Station from its ...
The Satellite Control Network was originally activated to support the CORONA (Discoverer) program in 1959. An interim satellite control center was initially established in Palo Alto, California, and by June 1960, a permanent control center had been established Sunnyvale AFS, later renamed Onizuka AFS, Sunnyvale, California.
The United States Air Force 's Air Force Satellite Control Facility ( AFSCF) was a space command and control unit located at Onizuka AFS, California. It has the distinction of being heavily involved in the world's first reconnaissance satellite program, CORONA. Due to geological hazards (i.e. earthquakes), and the terrorism threat from its ...
Onizuka Air Force Station [15] in Sunnyvale, California and Onizuka Village family housing on Hickam Air Force Base are dedicated to Onizuka. [16] The Ellison S. Onizuka Space Center at Kona International Airport in the Kona district of Hawaiʻi island where he was born and raised, was dedicated to him. The center closed in March 2016 and was ...
Garrison/HQ. Onizuka AFS, California. Decorations. AFOUA. The United States Air Force 's 750th Space Group was a space operations unit located at Onizuka Air Force Station, California. its predecessor was formed on 1 October 1987; it assumed the designation of the 750th Space Group on 30 January 1992; and it was inactivated on 25 June 1999.
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