Royal Vatican Space Force

**It is the branch of the space operations service of the Armed Forces of the Vatican States, and is one of the eleven uniformed services of the Vatican States. It is organized as a branch of military service within the Department of Defense. The Space Force, through the Department of the Air Force, is headed by the Secretary of the Space Force of the Vatican States, who reports to the Secretary of Defense, and is appointed by the Prime Minister with the confirmation of the Senate, the official of more The top ranking of the Space Force is the Chief of Space Operations.**

**The Chief of Space Operations exercises oversight over units of the Space Force and serves as one of the heads of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Vatican States. Certain components of the Space Force will be assigned, as directed by the United States Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Space Force, to Unified Combat Command. Combatant commanders will be delegated the operational authority of the forces assigned to them, while the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Space Operations will retain administrative authority over their members.**

**It was created on November 31, 2014 by order of H.M Francisco I due to the need to defend the satellites of the Vatican and in future cases space.**

# ***Relevant Data***

**Active: November 31, 2014**

**Type: Space Force**

**Function: Space War**

**Size: 20,000 Uniformed**

**Part of the Department of Defense of the Vatican States**

**Barracks: The Hexagon**

**Commander in Chief: Francisco I**

**Secretary of Defense: Louis De Gaulle**

**Secretary of the Space Force: Dolcelino Moretti**

**Chief of Space Operations: General Silvestro Lorenzo**

**Motto: We will be in heaven and we will defend you**

# ***Mission***

**The Space Force defines its core responsibilities to:**

**-Preserve freedom of action**

**-Allow lethality and joint efficacy**

**-Provide independent options**

### ***Space safety***

**Space security establishes and promotes stable conditions for safe and secure access to space activities for Vatican civil, commercial, intelligence and multinational partners. Space combat forces are used to deter an adversary from interfering with the Vatican States. And its allied partners, however, space security can also involve sharing information and domain knowledge, developing self-protection capabilities, coordinating support for anomaly resolution, maneuvering de-conflication, electromagnetic spectrum monitoring. , launch shared vehicles, protect space lines of communication and develop the capacity of the Kingdom's allies. through training and combined exercises.**

### ***Combat Power Projection***

**Combat Power Projection integrates defensive and offensive operations to maintain a desired level of freedom of action for the Vatican States and their allies in relation to an adversary. Combat Power Projection along with other competencies enhances freedom of action by deterring aggression or forcing an opponent to change behavior. The projection of combat power can be divided into defensive operations and offensive operations.**

**Defensive operations protect and preserve friendly space capabilities before, during, or after an attack. Defensive trading is further divided into active and passive stocks. Active defensive operations encompass actions to destroy, nullify, or reduce the effectiveness of threats that put the Kingdom's space capabilities at risk. Passive defense attempts to improve survivability through architectural and system attributes. Passive defense measures include the maneuverability of the spacecraft; personal protection; disintegration; diversification of orbits; large-scale proliferation; communications, transmission and broadcast security; camouflage, concealment and deception; and hardening of the system in the three segments of the spatial architecture.**

**Offensive operations target an adversary's space and counterspace capabilities, reducing the effectiveness and lethality of opposing forces in all domains. Offensive operations seek to gain initiative and can neutralize adversary space missions before they can be used against friendly forces. Offensive operations are not limited to the adversary's counterspace systems and can also target the full spectrum of the adversary's ability to exploit the space domain, including targets in the ground and cyber domains. Offensive space operations are essential to achieve space superiority.**

### ***Spatial mobility and logistics***

**Space Mobility and Logistics (SML) enables the movement and support of military equipment and personnel in the space domain, from the space domain back to** **Earth and into the space domain. Space mobility and logistics begin with the ability to safely and reliably launch military equipment into the proper orbit. During a conflict, the space launch must be dynamic and responsive, providing the ability to increase or reconstitute capacity gaps from multiple locations. Orbital sustainment enables military space forces to replenish consumables and expendables on spacecraft that cannot be recovered on Earth. Orbital sustain also enables spacecraft inspection, anomaly resolution, hardware maintenance, and technology upgrades. Orbital recovery allows the recovery of military personnel or equipment from the space domain.**

# ***Organization***

**The Space Force is under the administration of the Department of Defense, under the civilian leadership of the Secretary of the Space Force. The highest ranking officer in the Space Force is the chief of space operations, a general who is immediately below and reports to the secretary of the Space Force. At the same time, the head of space operations is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which is the second highest deliberative body of the armed forces after the National Security Council of the Vatican States, although he only plays an advisory role to the Prime Minister. and is not nominally part of the chain of command. The secretary of the Space Force and the chief of space operations are responsible for organizing, recruiting, training and equipping the Space Force so that it is ready to operate under the commanders of the unified combat commands.**

# ***Ranks (From Low to High)***

**-Specialist in cyberspace systems**

**-Specialist in cyberspace operations**

**-Fusion Analyst**

**-Signals intelligence analyst**

**-Gospatial Intelligence Analyst**

**- Intelligence analyst from all sources**

**-Specialist in space systems operations**

**-Material leader**

**-Senior Materiel Leader-Lower Echelon**

**-Procurement Manager**

**-Material leader**

**-Development engineer**

**-Cyber ​​warfare operations officer**

**-Cyberspace Operations Officer**

**-Intelligence officer**

**-Space operations officer**