Photo by Tech. Sgt. Luke Kitterman | Space Launch Delta 30 | 02.17.2023
A SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Starlink rocket launches from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Feb. 17, 2023. The launch capped off a five-day immersion for Royal Air Force (RAF) Flying Officer Hallchurch, U.K. Space Operations Centre (UKSpOC) space duty officer, and RAF Corporal Coulson, UKSpOC space analyst, who travelled from RAF High Wycombe to integrate with the 18th......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Luke Kitterman | Space Launch Delta 30 | 02.17.2023
A SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Starlink rocket launches from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Feb. 17, 2023. The launch capped off a five-day immersion for Royal Air Force (RAF) Flying Officer Hallchurch, U.K. Space Operations Centre (UKSpOC) space duty officer, and RAF Corporal Coulson, UKSpOC space analyst, who travelled from RAF High Wycombe to integrate with the 18th......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Luke Kitterman | Space Launch Delta 30 | 02.17.2023
A SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Starlink rocket launches from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Feb. 17, 2023. The launch capped off a five-day immersion for Royal Air Force (RAF) Flying Officer Hallchurch, U.K. Space Operations Centre (UKSpOC) space duty officer, and RAF Corporal Coulson, UKSpOC space analyst, who travelled from RAF High Wycombe to integrate with the 18th......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Luke Kitterman | Space Launch Delta 30 | 02.17.2023
A SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Starlink rocket launches from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Feb. 17, 2023. The launch capped off a five-day immersion for Royal Air Force (RAF) Flying Officer Hallchurch, U.K. Space Operations Centre (UKSpOC) space duty officer, and RAF Corporal Coulson, UKSpOC space analyst, who travelled from RAF High Wycombe to integrate with the 18th......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Luke Kitterman | Space Launch Delta 30 | 02.15.2023
Members of the 18th Space Defense Squadron (18 SDS) go over details for Space-Track.org with two members from the U.K. Space Operations Center during an Operator Exchange at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Feb. 15, 2023. According to Space-Track.org, 18 SDS’s official website for tracking object in space, there are approximately 47,800 objects continuously being monitored and accounted......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Luke Kitterman | Space Launch Delta 30 | 02.13.2023
(From left to right) Royal Air Force (RAF) Flying Officer Hallchurch, U.K. Space Operations Centre (UKSpOC) space duty officer, U.S. Space Force Capt. Dustin Pessatore, 18th Space Defense Squadron (18 SDS) sharing coordinator, and RAF Corporal Coulson, UKSpOC space analyst, stand in front of flags in 18 SDS’s High Bay at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Feb. 13, 2023. According to......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Luke Kitterman | Space Launch Delta 30 | 02.13.2023
Royal Air Force (RAF) Flying Officer Hallchurch, U.K. Space Operations Centre (UKSpOC) space duty officer, briefs members of the 18th Space Defense Squadron during the first day of the Operator Exchange program at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Feb. 13, 2023. The U.K. was the first state to publicly join the U.S. led Operation Olympic Defender – an effort to enable international......
Photo by Tiana Williams | National Space Defense Center | 07.28.2022
Flt Lt Nick Hallchurch, JCO-UK team lead, writes on a whiteboard during training at the Joint Task Force-Space Defense Commercial Operations cell (JCO) facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 28, 2022. The United Kingdom has joined the JCO global construct by standing up a national JCO-UK cell, June 26, 2023. The JTF-SD, through the JCO, is maintaining and expanding its operational......