Probable Impacts of Space Operations on Air Force Civil Engineering

Abstract

Remarks on vision as the bridge from today's space programs and systems to tomorrow's space reality introduce the study. From this an analytical model and framework are presented which form the major contents of the study. The chapter on Policy presents research into the changes of space policy and a discussion on where national space policy is focused. The military imperatives in space in relation to space policy is a major theme of this chapter which concludes that current space policy is revolutionary in nature. The next two chapters on Organizations and Activities and Technology and Systems present research into the DoD and NASA and their recent changes related to space. Numerous space related programs focusing on transportation systems, space control, space weapons and power are analyzed with respect to their potential to effect change. The approach has four basic tenets: visualization on the linkages between space policy and technology, acceptance of a bias for action in space, and, the last, the normalization of space in civil engineering.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA217499

Entities

People

  • John W. Mogge Jr.

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Astronautics
  • Civil Engineering
  • Congress
  • Control Systems
  • Defense Systems
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Engineers
  • Military Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Space Flight
  • Space Systems
  • Space Transportation
  • Spacecraft
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space