February 19, 1999
MEMORANDUM FOR CMOC/J3 AFSPACE/A3 FROM: USSPACECOM/J3 250 S. Peterson Blvd Ste 116 Peterson AFB CO 80914-3040
SUBJECT: Outside Distribution of Element Sets
1. In keeping with our MOU between USSPACECOM and NASA, we have been providing NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) with orbital element sets generated in the Space Control Center (SCC). For administrative reasons, the personnel at GSFC have revised their method of element set dissemination from a call-up bulletin board to a world wide web system.
2. Since the world wide web system offers no controls over personnel who have access to this information, it is incumbent on us to ensure space assets essential to our nation's defense are protected from potential adversaries. To enact new measures of OPSEC protection for space systems deemed vital to military support, the following procedures are directed immediately:
b. USSPACECOM/J33 provide GSFC with a list of satellite catelog numbers that should be removed from the NASA database to ensure no historical records are available.
c. The SCC remove GSFC as an addressee for sending updates on these satellites.
d. USSPACECOM/J33 verify with GSFC that all identified satellites have been removed from the GSFC web site and updates from the SCC have been terminated on the identified satellites.
RODNEY P. KELLY
MajGen, USAF
Director of Operations
cc: 21 OG/CC