French Joint Space Command

SSA : first priority of French military space policy 2025

Brigadier General Jean-Daniel TESTÉ Commander, Joint Space Command

TOKYO March 2016

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Complementaryaccess

GuaranteedAccess:flexibility

Heart:robustnessandresilience

French military Space policy 2025

3 levels of service access Ø  Sovereign

v StrategiccommunicaBonsv Eavesdroppingv Earlywarningv Highperformancesimagery

Ø  Guaranteed v Cooperation v Duality

Ø  Complementary

v commercial

French military Space policy main guidelines

•  First priority Ø Ensure the security of all space systems

•  Second priority Ø Keep up the current standard of service

regarding support for operations •  Third priority

Ø Develop space capabilities not held so far

Priority number one

è Ensure the security of all space systems

• SSA now

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GRAVESsystem•  CWVHFbistaBc•  Emission:

Ø  4phased-arrayantennasØ  Covering180°south

•  RecepBon:Ø  FieldofomnidirecBonalantennasØ  Digitalbeamforming

•  Processingservers(automaBcorbitaldatabaseresBtuBon)

•  SensorCapabilityØ  400-1000km,1m²Ø  Autonomous(noneedtobecued)Ø  ~2900objectsregularlyobserved

SATAM

•  C-bandradar•  Nondedicatedforspacesurveillance

•  CompaBblewithGRAVESdesignaBonqualityanddomainofdetecBon

•  PriorityusedforØ SpaceeventsØ CollisionriskØ Atmosphericreentry

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Outcomes

SSA

ADAOC/COSMOS

Collect

Spacesurveillance–SSAprocess

SensorsIntelligenceGovtpartnership

Foreignpartners

Opensources

SpacesupporttooperaBonsIntelenhancementCollisionrisksHazardousatmosphericreentries

Spacesurveillancechainofcommand(gvt)

OPCOM

OPCON

TACOM-TACON

JChoDJointSpaceCommand(CIE)

TAROT

ADAOCCOSMOS

3*SATAM

GRAVES

Procurementagency(DGA)

MONGE+Testcenterradars

CNES

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Priority number one

è Ensure the security of all space systems

• SSA Ø Missions

Ø Space situation collection Ø Knowledge of opposing space capabilities Ø Protection of Defense interest space capabilities

Ø Capability objectives Ø  Exploit at best available data, specifically the American « Space Track »

catalogue (complementary access) Ø Sustain LEO surveillance capability (post-GRAVES) and develop an initial

GEO surveillance capability (sovereign access) Ø  Get access to global GEO surveillance data and to LEO trajectography

information (guaranteed access) via European SST and OOC from CNES Ø 

Future•  Alreadystudiesmade

Ø OpBcalobservaBonwithadaptaBveorsyntheBcapertureopBcs

Ø Satellitelaserranging•  Assetsenhancement

Ø UpgradeofGRAVESØ Developmentofapre-C2spacesurveillancecapabilityØ IOCforgeostaBonarysurveillance(coveringSyracuse3Aand3BlocaBons)

•  StudiesØ LowcostpostGRAVESsystemØ SpectrographyforgeostaBonaryassets

EuropeanSSTiniBaBve•  Aim

Ø ProvidesspacesurveillanceservicesforEuropeanoperators,industry,governmentalenBBesv ConjuncBonanalysisandwarningv Reentriesanalysisandwarning

•  ConsorBumcreatedwithDE-FR-IT-SP-UKØ ~20M€for1½yearØ SatCenasfrontdeskbetweenOpscentersandcustomers

•  IOCmid-2016•  NointerferencewithmilitarycooperaBons

Phobos-Gruntreentry•  LaunchofPhobos-Gruntfailed•  RisksforpopulaBon(hydrazine)•  USproposedacooperaBontomonitorthishazardousre

entry•  Aknowledgementtoexchangeradardata•  Bilateralagreement:US-FR,US-Japan,Japan-France•  ExchaNgesprovidedassoonasagreemEntsigned•  GoodandfruiqulcooperaBon

•  LessonslearntØ  FirstBmethatdataareexchangedfoareentry(usualy:Bme,

TLE)=>succcessØ  GothroughCNES=>whynotmilitary?

•  PossibiltyofconBnuing?

So,inthefuture:•  ImproveexisBngcapabiliBes(GRAVESsystem)•  GetlackingcapabiliBes

Ø GEOsurveillanceØ Radar/opBcalimagingofspaceobjects

•  BeserprotecBonofourspaceassets•  Besersupporttoourforces(operaBons)•  Perpetuate/IntensifymilitarycooperaBonswithallies

Conclusion

•  SSA:Ø IsparamountforsovereigntyØ Allowsbeneficialexchangeswithalliesanddependson

•  FJSCaim:Ø ImproveexisBngcapabiliBesØ HighpriorityofSSAinpoliBcalstrategy

Ø DevelopcooperaBonwithallies

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