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89 Cards in this Set
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"The evolved expendable launch vehicle is a
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launch service.
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"Which space launch vehicle increases the US space launch industry's competitiveness in the international commercial launch services market?
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Evolved expendable launch vehicle.
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"Which space launch vehicle has a payload capability of up to 13,440 lbs to low earth orbit and 4,790 lbs to geosynchronous transfer orbit?
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Delta II.
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"Which space launch vehicle uses deactivated Minuteman II first and second stages?
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Minotaur I.
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"Which space launch vehicle has a (+/-) 1,312 feet orbital altitude accuracy and (+/-) 0.04 degree inclination accuracy?
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Dnepr.
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"Which space agency's mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to Europe and the world?
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European Space Agency.
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"Which space launch vehicle family is comprised of 12 different vehicles?
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Long March.
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"Which space launch vehicle is a three stage vehicle with four strap-on boosters and a launch capacity of 4,000 lbs to geosynchronous transfer orbit?
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Geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle.
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"What are the two types of rocket staging?
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Serial and parallel.
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"Which rocket motor is simple to build, inherently more reliable and cheaper to produce?
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Solid-propellant.
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"What type of solid-propellants have both an oxidizer and a fuel combined into a single molecule?
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Homogenous.
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"Which of the following IS NOT an ideal characteristic of solid-propellants?
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Hygroscopic.
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"What is a rough measure of how fast the propellant is ejected out of the back of the rocket engine?
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Specific impulse.
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"What is the rotational movement of a body that occurs about the longitudinal axis through the body?
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Roll.
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"What is the lateral rotational movement of a body about its transverse axis?
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Yaw.
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"What machine is a self-contained navigation system capable of determining a vehicle's position in inertial space through the double integration of the output of accelerometers?
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Inertial navigation unit.
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"What facility extends from Cape Canaveral, northeastward to Argentia, Newfoundland, Canada, and southeastward to Ascension Island?
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Eastern Range.
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"What organization's mission is to provide world-wide customers high quality, requirements tailored, range operations; operations support management; and scheduling services?
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1st Range Operations Squadron.
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"At the 1st Range Operations Squadron, which of the following IS NOT a 1C6X1 generation duty?
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Making the Go/No-Go decision.
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"At the 1st Range Operations Squadron, how many nautical miles of coverage does the digital Brite radar indicator tower equipment provide?
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60.
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"What location is the primary US launch facility to launch satellites into polar orbit?
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Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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"At the 2d Range Operations Squadron, which of the following IS NOT a 1C6X1 execution duty?
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Ensures aircraft are available for post-mission operations.
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"What 1C6X1 duty is unique to the Western Range?
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Aeronautical operations.
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"During what launch preparation sequence is a space launch vehicle put through a series of system level and integrated tests?
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Erecting.
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"What launch preparation phase constitutes a simulated flight and verifies all functions from engine ignition to payload separation?
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Integrated testing.
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"What terminal countdown sequence includes last minute mechanical and electrical installations and vehicle securing?
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Final countdown.
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"What is accomplished during the post-launch phase?
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Fire and safety personnel inspect the launch pad for fire and safety hazards.
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"The amount of time it takes to conduct the most fuel efficient launch refers to the launch
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window.
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"What inclination will a launch from the Equator have, if the launch is heading true east (90°)?
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0°.
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"Which of the following instruments is used to detect field and particle phenomena?
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Magnetometers.
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"Which of the following IS NOT part of the structures and mechanisms subsystem?
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Space launch vehicle's payload fairing.
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"Which of the following IS NOT a satellite energy source?
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Hybrid.
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"What type of battery is used as a continuous energy source and is NOT rechargeable?
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Primary.
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"What component is the heart of a fuel cell by generating electricity in the form of direct current?
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Fuel cell stack.
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"What is used to protect solar cells from radiation damage?
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Layers of quartz or sapphire.
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"In what common method of solar cell construction are the solar cell edges overlapped?
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Shingle mounting.
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"Which of the following is the basic physical process by which a radioisotope thermoelectric generator converts the heat generated from the natural decay of radioactive fuel into electricity?
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Thermoelectric effect.
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"Power conditioning components that detect abnormal current usage, identify potential faults such as shorted circuits, and withhold power to prevent damage are referred to as power
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control electronics.
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"Which of the following subsystems sends control signals to the thrusters, solar array positioners, and communication/payload positioners?
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Attitude control.
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"What type of attitude control occurs when the interaction between the satellite and the environment produce natural stabilizing torque?
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Passive control.
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"In what reaction control system is thrust developed from the rapid expansion of a pressurized propellant through a jet nozzle?
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Pressurized gas.
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"Measures are NOT used in space to protect satellite propellants from
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pilfering.
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"Which of the following subsystems includes all the equipment necessary for the satellite to transmit telemetry (downlink) and to receive commands from the ground station (uplink)?
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Telemetry, tracking, and control.
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"Which of the following subsystems keeps a satellite within certain temperature limits?
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Thermal control.
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"What type of thermal control subsystem does not consume energy and possesses none or few moving parts?
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Passive.
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"Which satellite system provides navigation and timing information to military and civilian users worldwide?
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Global positioning system.
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"Which of the following satellites include a new military signal (M-Code) on both the L1 and L2 channels, and a more robust civil signal (L2C) on the L2 channel?
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Global positioning system Block IIR-M.
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"What is the secondary mission of the global positioning system?
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Nuclear detonation detection.
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"On a global positioning system Block IIR satellites, which of its axes points towards the sun?
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- X.
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"Which of the following global positioning system subsystems contains the components that provide precise time and ephemeris data to the L-B and subsystem?
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Navigation subsystem.
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"Which global positioning system sensor is used to detect light emitted by an atmospheric nuclear detonation?
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An optical sensor.
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"Which space operations squadron operates the global positioning system master control station?
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2 SOPS.
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"Which satellite system provides global, visual and infrared meteorological cloud and geophysical data to the Air Force Weather Agency and US civilian agencies?
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Defense meteorological satellite program.
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"Which defense meteorological satellite program sensor measures temperatures over previously inaccessible regions and at higher altitudes?
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Temperature profiler.
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"What type of subsystem is used by the defense meteorological satellite program to unload momentum about a particular axis?
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Magnetic coils.
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"Which of the following satellite systems provides enhanced worldwide military communication capabilities?
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Defense satellite communications system.
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"What defense satellite communications system subsystem takes power from the solar arrays, and batteries, and conditions it to a regulated 28 Volt main bus line?
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Electrical power subsystem.
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"What defense satellite communications system subsystem IS NOT pressure regulated?
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Propulsion subsystem.
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"What Milstar subsystem allows the space ground link subsystem (SGLS) operators to contact the satellite by accepting and processing the SGLS signal?
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Telemetry, tracking, and control subsystem.
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"What Milstar terminal provides tactical users with secure, survivable, anti-jam, low probability of intercept and detection satellite communications in a HUMM-V?
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Secure mobile anti-jam reliable tactical-terminal.
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"Which of the following satellite systems provides flexible, high-capacity communications for our nation's warfighters within the 500 MHz X-band and 1 GHz Ka-band spectrum?
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Wideband global SATCOM system.
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"Which wideband global SATCOM system provides for X- and Ka-Band repeaters as well as X- and Ka-Band beacons, and a Baseband Digital switch?
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Payload.
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"Which wideband global SATCOM system components are used for station keeping and momentum unloading?
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Xeon ion engines.
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"What types of signals consist of patterns of bits of information (expressed by a binary code of ""0"" or ""1"")?
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Digital signal.
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"What type of data interface uses light pulses to transmit information?
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Fiber-optic cable.
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"What type of transmission provides for each data bit to be handled sequentially or one at a time?
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Serial.
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"What determines the physical size of an antenna?
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Operating frequency.
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"What antenna characteristic is the ratio between the amount of energy that is propagated in a particular direction compared to the amount of energy that is propagated if the antenna were not directional?
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Gain.
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"What is the process of pointing the ground antenna at a satellite that is emitting a signal?
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Acquiring.
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"What tracking method uses the ground equipment to transmit equally time-spaced pulses to the satellite?
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Passive.
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"What tracking method is a precise digital ranging signal modulated onto the uplink carrier?
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Pseudo-random noise.
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"Which of the following subsystems reduces the downlink signal from a microwave, super-high frequency or extremely-high frequency, to an intermediate frequency that can be handled by ground equipment?
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Downconverter.
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"Which of the following subsystems combines individual uplink signals such as command, timing, and range into a composite signal?
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Baseband assembly.
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"What can be used to compute a nominal element set for a satellite that is about to be injected into orbit?
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R–15 message.
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"Which of the following contains the formulas, biases, and modifiers used to predict where a satellite will be at a given date and time?
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Orbit determination program.
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"What is normally used to initially acquire a newly launched satellite?
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R–15 message and nominal element set.
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"What device displays pertinent mission information and provides an interface to other equipment such as the ground station mainframes?
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Mission workstation.
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"What is the primary difference between real-time commands and stored program commands?
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Time of execution.
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"When does a crew begin preparations for a satellite contact?
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Approximately 20 minutes prior to a scheduled satellite pass.
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"During which of the following contact stages does the crew carefully verify all actions were accomplished?
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Postpass.
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"What command and control system -- consolidated subsystem generates simulated satellite telemetry and ground system data in support of training and evaluation activities?
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Simulation.
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"What command and control system -- consolidated subsystem is where the bulk of CCS-C activity occurs?
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Telemetry and commanding.
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"What command and control system -- consolidated workstation is used to analyze and generate orbit determination reports, view the technical orders, monitor the contact schedule, and edit crew logs?
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Orbital analysis.
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"What command and control system -- consolidated crewmember's responsibility is the health and operation of their constellation?
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Satellite vehicle operator.
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"Which of the following systems support national space programs by providing telemetry, tracking, and control services?
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Air Force satellite control network.
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"Which of the following Air Force satellite control network segments enables the execution of the three primary mission phases: planning, contact support and evaluation?
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Command and control.
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"What automated remote tracking station functional component is used to transmit and receive signals to and from the satellite?
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Telemetry, tracking, and control antenna.
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"What tool is used by schedulers to notify all affected Air Force satellite control network users when changes occur?
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Electronic scheduling dissemination.
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"What Air Force satellite control network priority is used when a user identifies for immediate payload commanding; failure to do so will result in deterioration of primary payload performance?
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Critical payload commanding.;
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