The Space Development and Test Wing (SDTW) was a unit of
Air Force Space Command's
Space and Missile Systems Center of the
United States Air Force. The
wing is located at
Kirtland Air Force Base
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in
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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The unit was combined with another
Space and Missile Systems Center directorate and is now known as the Advanced Systems and Development Directorate.
Mission
The Space Development and Test Directorate develops, tests and evaluates Air Force space systems, executes advanced space development and demonstration projects, and rapidly transitions capabilities to the warfighter.
History
The Space Development and Test Wing was activated 1 August 2006. Prior to that, Detachment 12 of the
Space and Missile Systems Center had been activated at Kirtland AFB 29 June 2001, taking responsibility for research, developmental test and evaluation organizations that had been co-located at Kirtland AFB alongside the
Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles and Directed Energy Directorates.
* Lineage
** Detachment 2,
Space and Missile Systems Center, Onizuka AS, CA
** SMC, Test and Evaluation Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM
** Detachment 12,
Space and Missile Systems Center, Kirtland AFB, NM (activated 29 June 2001)
** Space Development and Test Wing, Kirtland AFB, NM (activated 1 Aug 2006)
**
Advanced Systems and Development Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM
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* Past Directors and Commanders
** Craig Martin, Colonel, USAF (retired)
** James Ford, Colonel, USAF (retired)
** Ralph Monfort, Colonel, USAF (retired)
Operations
Units
The Space Development and Test Wing is divided into two
Groups
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, the
Space Development Group
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and the
Space Test Group
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* Space Development Group
** Responsive Space Squadron
** Responsive Satellite Command and Control Division
** Human Spaceflight Payloads Division - Houston, TX
*Space Test Group
** Space Test Squadron
***
SOC 96 - Schriever AFB
***
SOC 97 - Kirtland AFB
** Space Test Operations Squadron
** Launch Test Squadron
References
See also
*
Space Test Program
*
Space and Missile Systems Center
*
C/NOFS
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STP-S26
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Military units and formations in New Mexico
Space wings of the United States Air Force
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