Peterson AFB, Advanced Space Operations School

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The Advanced Space Operations School (ASOpS) is part of HQ Air Force Space Command at Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, CO.  The Advanced Space Operations School is the center of excellence for space education and training throughout the national security space community. ASOpS researches, develops and provides world-class instruction of space systems and technologies, capabilities, operational concepts and tactics in order to prepare warfighters for joint military operations in, from and through the contested, degraded and operationally-limited space environment.

Peterson Air Force Base is a U.S. Air Force Base that shares an airfield with the adjacent Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, also having the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) headquarters. Developed as a World War II air support base for Camp Carson, the facility conducted Army Air Forces training and supported Cold War air defense centers at the nearby Ent Air Force Base, Chidlaw Building, and Cheyenne Mountain Complex. The base has been the location of the Air Force Space Command headquarters since 1987 and has had NORAD/NORTHCOM command center operations since the 2006 Cheyenne Mountain Realignment placed the nearby Cheyenne Mountain Complex centers on standby.