Ellison Onizuka Satellite Operations Facility
USA /
California /
Vandenberg Air Force Base /
World
/ USA
/ California
/ Vandenberg Air Force Base
World / United States / California
United States Air Force, satellite/space tracking station
21 SOPS HQ relocated from Onizuka AFB, CA by BRAC.
The 21st SOPS schedules, allocates and configures Air Force Satellite Control Network common user resources; monitors, maintains and updates the status of AFSCN resources; and provides status, configurations and readiness of controlled resources to multiple users and command centers.
The namesake of the 21st SOPS' new home, Col. Ellison Onizuka, was an astronaut who died aboard Space Shuttle Challenger Jan. 28, 1986.
www.vandenberg.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123215824
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6KHPrSkcvI
The 21st SOPS schedules, allocates and configures Air Force Satellite Control Network common user resources; monitors, maintains and updates the status of AFSCN resources; and provides status, configurations and readiness of controlled resources to multiple users and command centers.
The namesake of the 21st SOPS' new home, Col. Ellison Onizuka, was an astronaut who died aboard Space Shuttle Challenger Jan. 28, 1986.
www.vandenberg.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123215824
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6KHPrSkcvI
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50th_Space_Wing#Air_Force_Space_Command
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 34°44'8"N 120°32'51"W
- Edwards Air Force Base 222 km
- Beale Air Force Base (IATA: BAB – ICAO: KBAB) 501 km
- Nellis Air Force Base (LSV/KLSV) 525 km
- Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range 684 km
- Boardman Air Force Range 1234 km
- Kirtland Air Force Base (ABQ/KABQ) 1272 km
- Holloman Air Force Base 1338 km
- U.S. Air Force Academy 1470 km
- Eielson Air Force Base, AK (EIL/PAEI) 3788 km
- Clear Air Force Station 3821 km
- Vandenberg AFB Landfill 2.6 km
- Vandenberg Air Force Base (VBG/KVBG) 3 km
- Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex 7.4 km
- Vandenberg Village 8.4 km
- The Mission Club 8.8 km
- Mission Hills 11 km
- Space Launch Complex 3 (SLC-3) (Active) 11 km
- Lompoc Airport (LPC/KLPC) 11 km
- La Purísima Mission State Historic Park 13 km
- Celite Corporation Diatomite Quarry 17 km