The 1st Space Wing was a

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of the

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active from 1983 to 1992 at

Peterson Air Force Base Peterson Space Force Base, previously Peterson Air Force Base, Peterson Field, and Army Air Base, Colorado Springs, is a United States Space Force base that shares an airfield with the adjacent Colorado Springs Municipal Airport and is home t ...

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as part of

Air Force Space Command An atmosphere () is a layer of gases that envelop an astronomical object, held in place by the gravity of the object. A planet retains an atmosphere when the gravity is great and the temperature of the atmosphere is low. A stellar atmosphere ...

. The Wing was constituted on 18 Oct 1982 and activated on 1 January 1983 with assignment to Space Command (later, Air Force Space Command). It was inactivated on 15 May 1992 along with the 3d Space Wing, also at Peterson AFB, and the

21st Space Wing The 21st Wing (21 WG) is an inactive wing of the United States Air Force. It was established in 1953 as the 21st Fighter-Bomber Wing, deploying to Europe to join NATO's Allied Command Europe, before being inactivated in 1958. It reactivated i ...

, a unit with a more historic lineage, took their place.

Subordinate units

Groups

*1st Space Support Group *12th Missile Warning Group (??) *47th Communications Group (??) * 73d Space Surveillance Group (from AFSPC 1 Jun 1991 – 27 Feb 1992 to AFSPC) * 4000th Satellite Operations Group (1981-83), later

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(1983-1992)

Squadrons

1st Command and Control Squadron First most commonly refers to: * First, the ordinal form of the number 1 First or 1st may also refer to: Acronyms * Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, an astronomical survey carried out by the Very Large Array * Far Infrared a ...

(??-??) * 2d Communications Squadron (??) * 3d Communications Squadron (??) * 4th Satellite Communications Squadron, Mobile (??) * 5th Defense Space Communications Squadron (??) * 6th Missile Warning Squadron (??) * 7th Missile Warning Squadron (??) * 8th Missile Warning Squadron (??) * 9th Missile Warning Squadron (??) * 10th Missile Warning Squadron (??) * 12th Missile Warning Squadron (??) *

13th Missile Warning Squadron The 213th Space Warning Squadron of the Alaska Air National Guard provides early warning of Intercontinental ballistic missiles and Submarine-launched ballistic missiles to the Missile Correlation Center of North American Aerospace Defense Comma ...

(??) * 16th Surveillance Squadron (??) * 17th Surveillance Squadron (??) * 18th Surveillance Squadron (??) *

19th Surveillance Squadron The 19th Space Operations Squadron is an Air Force Reserve space operations unit, located at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. Mission The 19th Space Operations Squadron is a reserve associate unit with the 2nd Navigation Warfare Squadron (f ...

(??) * 20th Missile Warning Squadron (??)

Emblem

Blazon

Azure, from chief two rays pilewise or, terminating at base on a demi-globe light blue edged and grid-lined sable, surmounting the rays and globe are two uneven ellipses saltirewise argent, each intersected with a mullet of four points of the second and delineated of the fourth; positioned between the rays at dexter chief a globe and at sinister a mullet of five points and below them a smaller mullet of the same all of the fifth, all within a diminished bordure of the second. {{See also, Heraldry#The_rules_of_heraldry, l1=Heraldry

Significance

The globe represents the earth as viewed from space; the earth being both the origin and control point for all man-made space activities. The lines of latitude and longitude emphasize the global nature of Air Force space operations. The two uneven ellipses represent both low and high orbital paths traced by satellites in earth orbit shown as four-point stars. The two yellow rays depict space surveillance and communications capability from ground base sensors. The larger of the two stars represents the Space Command, and the smaller and closest star to earth represents the 1st Space Wing of the Space Command. The two stars also along with the distinctive blue shading and small globe symbolize the space environment.

References

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