Aerospace Data Facility-Colorado

Aerospace Data Facility-Colorado
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Country	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
Branch	File:Flag of the United States Space Force.svg United States Space Force
Type	Satellite ground station
Part of	File:NRO.svg National Reconnaissance Office
Headquarters	Buckley Space Force Base Aurora, Colorado, U.S.
Commanders
Current commander	Col David E. Gallagher
Insignia
Space Delta 20	File:Space Delta 20.png

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Aerospace Data Facility Colorado (ADF-C) on Buckley Space Force Base.

Aerospace Data Facility-Colorado (ADF-C) or Space Delta 20 (DEL 20) one of three satellite ground stations operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and United States Space Force in the continental United States.^[1] Located within Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, the facility is responsible for the command and control of reconnaissance satellites involved in the collection of intelligence information and for the dissemination of that intelligence to other U.S. government agencies.^[2]^[3]

List of commanders

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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2021)

Col Cary C. Chun, July 2005–August 2007
Col David D. Thompson, July 2007–May 2009
Col Stephen Denker, July 2009–January 2011
Col Ronald L. Huntley, January 2011–August 2012^[4]
Col B. Chance Saltzman, June 2012–June 2014
Col Daniel D. Wright III
Brig Gen Christopher Povak, June 2016–August 2019
Col Jacob Middleton Jr., 29 August 2019^[5]^[6]
Brig Gen Robert J. Schreiner, 12 August 2021^[7]
Col David E. Gallagher, July 2024^[8]

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External links

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https://www.nsa.gov/about/locations

United States Space Force

Leadership

Oversight	House Armed Services Committee Strategic Forces subcommittee Senate Committee on Armed Services Strategic Forces subcommittee

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Structure

Field commands	Space Futures Command Space Operations Command Commander Space Systems Command Commander Space Training and Readiness Command Commander
Component Field Commands	United States Space Forces – Central United States Space Forces – Europe and Africa United States Space Forces – Indo-Pacific United States Space Forces – Korea United States Space Forces – Space
Deltas	Space Delta 1 Mission Delta 2 Mission Delta 3 Mission Delta 4 Space Delta 5 Space Delta 6 Space Delta 7 Space Delta 8 Space Delta 9 Space Delta 10 Space Delta 11 Space Delta 12 Space Delta 13 Space Delta 15 Space Delta 18 Space Delta 21 Space Delta 23 Space Delta 26 Space Launch Delta 30 Mission Delta 31 Space Launch Delta 45 Space Base Delta 1 Space Base Delta 2 Space Base Delta 3
Squadrons	1st Delta Operations 319th Combat Training 328th Weapons 392d Combat Training 533rd Training 21st Operations Support 15th Space Surveillance 18th Space Defense 19th Space Defense 20th Space Surveillance 3rd Combat Training 4th EW 5th EW 16th EW 23rd EW 2nd Space Warning 3rd satellite Communications 5th Space Warning 6th Space Warning 7th Space Warning 10th Space Warning 11th Space Warning 12th Space Warning 13th Space Warning 55th Training 21st Space Operations 22nd Space Operations 23rd Space Operations 62nd Cyberspace 63rd Cyberspace 64th Cyberspace 65th Cyberspace 68th Cyberspace 69th Cyberspace 645th Cyberspace 71st ISR 72nd ISR 73rd ISR 74th ISR 75th ISR 76th ISR 1st Space Operations 2nd Navigation Warfare 3rd Space Operations 4th Space Operations 5th Space Operations 10th Space Operations 53rd Space Operations 527th Space Aggressor 1st Test and Evaluation 3rd Test and Evaluation 17th Test and Evaluation 25th Space Range 2nd Space Launch 5th Space Launch 1st Range Operations NSSI
Direct reporting units	Space Development Agency Space Rapid Capabilities Office Space Warfighting Analysis Center

Locations

Space Force Bases	Buckley Los Angeles Patrick Peterson Schriever Vandenberg
Space Bases	Pituffik
Space Force Stations	Cape Canaveral Cape Cod Cavalier Cheyenne Mountain Clear Kaena Point New Boston

Personnel
and training

History and
traditions

Former wings and deltas	21st Space Wing 50th Space Wing 460th Space Wing Space Training and Readiness Delta (Provisional)

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v t e National Reconnaissance Office
Current programs	Sentient (intelligence analysis system) (2009-unknown) SpaceX Starshield (2022-present) Silentbarker (2023-) Blackjack (2024-) Future Ground Architecture	File:NRO.svg
Facilities & commands	Headquarters, Chantilly, VA National Reconnaissance Operations Center (NROC) RAF Menwith Hill Pine Gap Casa Grande Photogrammetric Test Range 222d Command and Control Squadron Aerospace Data Facilities Colorado, Buckley Space Force Base East, Virginia, Fort Belvoir Southwest, New Mexico, White Sands Missile Range
Technology & Science	Byeman Control System Dijkstra's algorithm Phased array radar Synthetic-aperture radar Tip and cue
Satellite lines & projects	Key Hole (1959-unknown) Discoverer 1 (1959) Corona (1959-1972) Samos (1960-1962) KH-5 Argon (1961-1964) Upward (1961-1972) Poppy (1962-1967) Samos-F (1962-1971) Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (1962-2014) Lanyard (1963) Zirconic (1963-) Gambit (1963-1967) Quill (1964) Gambit 3 (1966-1984) Canyon (1968-1977) Aquacade (1970-1978) Jumpseat (1971-1983) Hexagon (1971-1986) KENNEN (1976-unknown) Satellite Data System (1976-2017) Naval Ocean Surveillance System (1976-2025) Vortex (1978-1989) Magnum (1985-1989) Lacrosse (1988-2005) Prowler (1990) Misty (1990-2012) Trumpet (1994-1997) Mercury (1994-1998) SLDCOM (1994-unknown) Orion (1995-) FORTE (1997) Discoverer II (1998-2000) STEX (1998) Enhanced Imaging System (1999) Future Imagery Architecture (1999-2018) Zuma (2018)
People	Christopher Scolese (Director) Betty J. Sapp Brian Patrick Regan William Kampiles Leadership of the National Reconnaissance Office
History	Chronology of the National Reconnaissance Office List of NRO launches USA-193 USA-225 USA-234 USA-276 2012 National Reconnaissance Office space telescope donation to NASA Multiple Mirror Telescope 6594th Test Group
Past programs	Manned Orbiting Laboratory NEMESIS (High Altitude) RAVEN (High Altitude) SIGINT High Altitude Replenishment Program (SHARP)
Founders	William O. Baker Merton E. Davies Sidney Drell Richard L. Garwin Amrom Harry Katz James R. Killian Edwin H. Land Frank W. Lehan William J. Perry Edward M. Purcell

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