page_title: United States Space Command
section_title: Second U.S. Space Command: 2019–present
hierarchical_section_title: United States Space Command / History / Second U.S. Space Command: 2019–present
caption_attribution_description: President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, joined by General John ”Jay” Raymond Commander of USSPACECOM, stand with Secretary of Defense Mark Esper as he displays the signed document for the Establishment of the U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019, in the Rose Garden of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour)
context_page_description: United States Space Command is a unified combatant command of the United States Department of Defense, responsible for military operations in outer space, specifically all operations above 100 kilometers above mean sea level.
  Space Command was created in September 1985 to provide joint command and control for all military forces in outer space and coordinate with the other combatant commands. SPACECOM was inactivated in 2002, and its responsibilities and forces were merged into United States Strategic Command. After nearly 17 years, Space Command was reestablished on 29 August 2019, with a reemphasized focus on space as a warfighting domain.
context_section_description: The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which was signed into law in 2018, directed the reestablishment of U.S. Space Command as a sub-unified combatant command under U.S. Strategic Command; however, in December 2018, the Trump administration directed that U.S. Space Command instead be reestablished as a full unified combatant command, with full responsibilities for space warfighting held under U.S. Strategic Command.
  On March 26, 2019, U.S. Air Force General John W. Raymond was nominated to be Commander of the reestablished USSPACECOM, pending Senate approval.
  In 2019 the Air Force released that the list of finalists for the Headquarters of Space Command were Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Schriever Air Force Base, Peterson Air Force Base, Buckley Air Force Base, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and Redstone Arsenal.
  U.S. Space Command was officially reestablished on August 29, 2019 during a ceremony at the White House. The former Joint Force Space Component Commander was dissolved and folded into Space Command.
  USSPACECOM has two subordinate commands: Combined Force Space Component Command (CFSCC), and Joint Task Force Space Defense (JTF-SD) with commanders AF Maj. Gen. Stephen Whiting, and Army BG Gen. Tom James, respectively. CFSCC plans, integrates, conducts, and assesses global space operations in order to deliver combat relevant space capabilities to Combatant Commanders, Coalition partners, the Joint Force, and the Nation. JTF-SD conducts, in unified action with mission partners, space superiority operations to deter aggression, defend U.S. and allied interests, and defeat adversaries throughout the continuum of conflict.
caption: Left to right: USSPACECOM Commander General John Raymond, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in the White House Rose Garden for the 2019 reestablishment signing ceremony
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