text: Army Space Operations Overview
  ARMY SPACE ELEMENTS AND TEAMS
  1-27. An Army space support element (SSE) serves as an integral part of the headquarters staff directly
  involved in the staff planning and targeting process, and coordinates directly with other space staffs on
  procedures for space support requests and reachback support. They are assigned to every Army, corps, and
  division headquarters staff. SSEs are part of the military decisionmaking process (MDMP) to ensure space
  capabilities and effects are optimized to meet the commander’s intent. They identify the utility of employing
  specific space capabilities, coordinate for those capabilities which do not fall under the purview of other staff
  elements, integrate them into plans, and ensure they are synchronize in operations. They develop Appendix
  18–Space Operations to Annex C of a commander’s base plan or order to describe how Army space
  operations are integrated into the concept of operations.
  1-28. Army space brigade and battalions provide trained and ready Soldiers to conduct SATCOM, satellite
  operations, missile warning, and space control directly supporting the warfighter, and provides other
  capabilities for Army and joint space operations. An Army space support team (ARSST) provides space
  planning expertise, capabilities, products, and SSA of space assets. The team deploys and integrates with a
  host unit to provide direct support to Army brigades and higher echelons (as necessary), Army Special
  Operations forces, Marine Expeditionary Forces, and may be deployed to support an SSE. An ARSST team
  may be tailored in a variety of ways to fulfill a request for forces.
  1-29. An Army space control planning teams provide the Army with space control planning capabilities.
  The focus of the space control planning teams is to support commands exercising operational control of space
  control systems and capabilities. Space control planning teams operate at the combatant commander or joint
  force commander level where they integrate into the headquarters element. They provide space control
  planning integration and expertise on Army space control capabilities to coordinate effects, timing, and tempo
  with centralized operational space control capabilities. Planning for space control operations should be
  conducted by space operations Soldiers who are subject matter expertise in space control.
  1-30. An Army space coordination element has Army space operations coordination responsibilities.
  Residing within an Army battlefield coordination detachment at a theater air operations center, they
  coordinate land component commanders space operations requirements between air component commander
  and the space coordinating authority (SCA). They assist SSEs to ensure Army space equities are recognized
  and incorporated into joint space operations, assist in the joint space planning process, and assist in the
  development of space priorities in support of the land component commander.
  ARMY SPACE-ENABLED OPERATIONS
  1-31. Network Transport. SATCOM is a key means of information transport for unified land operations.
  SATCOM systems provide long-haul capability, multi-path options for tactical communications,
  communications on-the-move, beyond line of sight communications, and flexibility to commanders and
  warfighters. SATCOM systems are located at every echelon in the Army and support all operations. Support
  to intra-theater communications and connectivity to Department of Defense information network provides
  critical services routed through military narrowband and wideband SATCOM constellation. These services
  include the Defense Switched Network, Defense Red Switched Network, Defense Messaging System, video
  teleconferencing, Telemedicine, Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNET), SECRET
  Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET), and the global mission networks.
  1-32. Expeditionary Signal Units. An expeditionary signal unit provides communications support for an
  area of operations to establish a tactical network. An appropriately sized expeditionary signal unit—brigade,
  battalion, company, or platoon—contains the necessary personnel, transmission systems, network
  management systems, and mission command information systems necessary to create a correctly sized,
  complete communications node.
  1-33. Army tactical ground operations depend on signal Soldiers to establish satellite terminal connectivity
  to use SATCOM for network transport. The tactical operations center is the center of activity behind tactical
  battlefield operation where many of the SATCOM feeds terminate, the data is digested, and used to make
  decisions. From headquarters at the battalion, up to corps, and often higher, the tactical operations center is
  where staff sections come together to make battlefield decisions and issue orders.