vol 2

Question 1

Which scenario has a high probability of happening if Global Positioning System satellites fail

Answer 1

Disrupt police or fire operations around the world

Question 2

How does the Joint Publication 5-0, Joint operation Planning , explain how the Center of Gravity works in regards to military planning?

Answer 2

It is the source of power that provides moral or physical strength.

Question 3

Which is a characteristic of the Centers of Gravity?

Answer 3

Exist at each level of war

Question 4

What is negatively impacted if we cannot protect our satellites in space?

Answer 4

Military and economy

Question 5

How does the Department of Defense promote the responsible and safe use of space?

Answer 5

By following the United States Government’s orbital Debris Mitigation Standards Practices

Question 6

How does space power operate differently from other forms of military power?

Answer 6

It has global perspective

Question 7

Which regulation addresses the command and control of space forces and methods of planning for space operations?

Answer 7

Joint Publication 3-14, Space operations

Question 8

How many functional Capabilities are needed so that space situational awareness can make assessments on United States and cooperative space systems?

Answer 8

4

Question 9

What is the fourth Functional Component space situational awareness uses to make assessments

Answer 9

Data integration and exploitation to tie together data.

Question 10

What is the fifth space force enhancement capability function?

Answer 10

Satellite Communication

Question 11

What space system segment provide the equipment for users to receive space services?

Answer 11

Ground

Question 12

What important trend led early space missions from monitoring strategic forces to focusing on important world events and situations?

Answer 12

Continuous Awareness

Question 13

Which is an operational art element of graceful degradation?

Answer 13

Data fusion

Question 14

What short-notice event is considered a military operation other than war and is support by United States forces?

Answer 14

Forest fires

Question 15

Which is not a Global Positioning System service provided to industry by space systems?

Answer 15

Surveillance monitoring

Question 16

What country drive the world economy?

Answer 16

United States

Question 17

Which necessary quality from executing phases of warfare deals with responsive communication and enables command and control?

Answer 17

Persistence

Question 18

Which joint campaign or operations phase has the joint force commander executing offensive operations at the earliest possible time

Answer 18

Dominate

Question 19

Annex N came about after a review of

Answer 19

Desert Storm operations

Question 20

What space operations process integrates major operations and campaigns at the joint force commander and air component levels ?

Answer 20

The joint operation planning process

Question 21

Russia’s space program is organized around the

Answer 21

federal space agency

Question 22

What manned spacecraft is China’s centerpiece space program?

Answer 22

Shenzhou

Question 23

What typically defines an alliance relationship?

Answer 23

Long-term objectives

Question 24

Many satellite system designs come from what era?

Answer 24

Cold War

Question 25

What capability provides a satellite system the ability to support the functions necessary for mission success with higher probability and shorter period of reduced capability?

Answer 25

Resilience

Question 26

Placing space capabilities onto multiple platforms to improve mission survivability is a characteristic of

Answer 26

disaggregation

Question 27

The foundation of joint space doctrine establishing principles for the integrated employment of space capabilities is stated in Joint Publication

Answer 27

3-14

Question 28

The satellite communication system expert for Wideband Global Satellite Communications is the United States

Answer 28

Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command

Question 29

What potentially increases as the United States Dependance on space capabilities increases?

Answer 29

Vulnerability

Question 30

Since the inception of joint doctrine there are now how many principles of war?

Answer 30

12

Question 31

Who is responsible for prioritizing space capabilities and resources to meet the supported commander's needs?

Answer 31

Commander, United States Strategic Command

Question 32

The ability to assure the United States' access to space while denying he adversaries the use of space is the definition of space

Answer 32

control

Question 33

which article of the Outer Space Treaty provides two arms control provisions limiting military space usage?

Answer 33

Article IV

Question 34

Who issues standing rules of engagement?

Answer 34

The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Question 35

When they are unable to match the United States and its allies in military technology, enemies can potentially use

Answer 35

asymmetric attack

Question 36

Measures aimed at preventing freedom of action in a confined area that is under an enemy's control are called?

Answer 36

Area-denial

Question 37

What Air Force Space Command commander subscribed to a "whole of government" approach to deterrence following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks?

Answer 37

General Kevin Chilton

Question 38

Which dimension involves decision makers and their target audience to think, perceive, visualize, and decide?

Answer 38

Cognitive

Question 39

Which non-space option denies the use of space by cutting buried communication lines?

Answer 39

Sabotage

Question 40

Which non-space option denies the use of space by inserting false data

Answer 40

Non-kinetic effects

Question 41

Which North American Aerospace Defense End State adapts to meet emerging strategic and operational challenges through modernization concepts and for structure requirements?

Answer 41

4

Question 42

What is the nerve center for United States Strategic Command?

Answer 42

Global Operation Center

Question 43

What is an Offensive Space Control attack a form of?

Answer 43

Electronic

Question 44

What is used to disrupt a target signal strength of a satellite receiver?

Answer 44

Jammer

Question 45

What cell will most likely coordinate Offensive Space Control operations?

Answer 45

Special Technical Operations

Question 46

The Global Positioning System is based on what concept?

Answer 46

Trilateration

Question 47

How many satellites can a receiver view form most locations with a full Global Positing System constellation?

Answer 47

6

Question 48

Which operationally Responsive Space platform is a modular, reconfigurable, multi mission satellite bus developed using modular open systems approach?

Answer 48

2

Question 49

Which operationally Responsive Space platform demonstrated an integrated payload stack for a low-cost payload capability and decreased range cost through automated targeting and range safety processes

Answer 49

3

Question 50

After Desert Storm what system was created to receive faster missile warning data in theater?

Answer 50

Theater event system

Question 51

Which Theater Missile Defense pillar involves delaying/disrupting the enemy's ability to launch theater and strategic missiles?

Answer 51

Attack Operations

Question 52

What is critical to ensure a hasty, unfounded response is not made in a possible missile attack?

Answer 52

Dual-phenomonology

Question 53

All operations within the United States' Arctic portion of the area of responsibility fall under the United States

Answer 53

Northern Command

Question 54

What system has Nuclear Detonation Detection as a Tertiary Mission

Answer 54

Global Positioning System

Question 55

What two service branches are deployed to operate the Joint Tactical Ground Stations?

Answer 55

Army and Navy

Question 56

Which Global Positioning System Augmentation transmits corrections across the entire United States and potentially worldwide?

Answer 56

Wide Area Augmentation System

Question 57

Which band does not provide services in satellite communications

Answer 57

Very High Frequency

Question 58

Commercial sources provide what percentage of satellite communications

Answer 58

50

Question 59

the traditional missions of mapping, charting, and geodesy are included in which mission area?

Answer 59

Environmental

Question 60

Which agency uses the Defense Meteorological Support Program to provide the Air Force and Army with web-based weather products for battlespace characterization?

Answer 60

Fleet Numerical Meteorological Support and Oceanography Center

Question 61

What positive side effect occurs when the Earth atmosphere expands and creates an increase in atmospheric drag?

Answer 61

Reduce Space Debris

Question 62

The preferred orbit for weather and reconnaissance is

Answer 62

Low Earth

Question 63

Which orbit is preferred for cellular telephone communications?

Answer 63

Medium Earth

Question 64

Which anti-satellite weapon is launched into an orbit similar to the target satellite

Answer 64

Co-orbital

Question 65

How much warning time do satellites in geostationary orbits have against ground-based anti-satellite launches

Answer 65

3-6 hours

Question 66

The CORONA program was the earliest pioneer in what type of intelligence?

Answer 66

Imagery

Question 67

Where is the National Reconnaissance Office Operations Squadron located?

Answer 67

Schriever

Question 68

As defined by the Department of Defense, what type of intelligence is derived from the collection and exploitation of visual photography, wherein images of object are reproduced optically or electronically?

Answer 68

Imagery

Question 69

What orbit can provide satellite coverage in a matter of minutes?

Answer 69

Low earth

Question 70

When using current systems, what imagery resolution size is usually referred to for each pixel sample of a square area on the ground?

Answer 70

Meters