1st Space Brigade
Brigade shoulder sleeve insignia
Active	2005–present [1]
Country	United States
Branch	United States Army
Type	Brigade
Role	Space operations
Part of	United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command
Headquarters	Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
Website	www.smdc.army.mil/ORGANIZATION/1st-Space-Brigade/
Commanders
Commander	COL Mark A. Cobos
CSM	CSM Maurice L. Tucker
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia

The 1st Space Brigade is a United States Army unit. Assigned to the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command, it is responsible for providing space combat power support to Army units. Activated in 2005 as a TOE unit after being provisionally active since 2003, it is headquartered at Colorado Springs, Colorado. ^[1]

The 1st Space Brigade (Provisional) was activated in May 2003, with the 1st Space Battalion, the 1st Satellite Control Battalion (later to become the 53rd Signal Battalion), and the 193rd Space Battalion ( Colorado Army National Guard). ^[2] On 20 October 2007 the provisional 193rd Space Battalion became a permanent-status unit, the 117th Space Battalion. ^[3]

Since 2019, five missile defense batteries have been assigned to 1st Space Brigade including two in Japan and one each in Israel, Turkey, and Qatar. ^[4]

The mission of 1st Space Brigade is to "conduct continuous, global space support, space control and space force enhancement operations in support of U.S. Strategic Command and Supported Combatant Commanders enabling the delivery of decisive combat power." ^{[5] [6]}

Structure

Name		Mission	Headquarters	Subordinate units
	1st Space Battalion	Plan, integrate, synchronize and execute global theater ballistic missile warning, space situational awareness, space and technical operations support, and assigned contingency activities [7]	Fort Carson, Colorado	Headquarters and Headquarters Company [8] 2nd Space Company (Space Control Planning Team) [9] 4th Space Company (Space Control) [10] 18th Space Company (Space Control) [11]
	2nd Space Battalion ( Army Reserve)	Plan, integrate, synchronize and execute space situational awareness, space and technical operations support, and assigned contingency activities [12]	Fort Carson, Colorado	Headquarters and Headquarters Company [13] 3rd Space Company (Army Space Support Team) [14] 5th Space Company (Army Space Support Team) [15] 6th Space Company(Army Space Support Team) [16] 8th Space Company (Space Control) [17] 23rd Space Company [18]

The brigade also has five missile defense batteries equipped with AN/TPY-2 forward-based radar conducting ballistic missile tracking operations in support of theater and homeland defense. The forward-based radar may also be used to conduct space surveillance and data collection. ^[19]

The 117th Space Battalion, Colorado Army National Guard has a training, readiness, and oversight (TRO) relationship with the 1st Space Brigade but is not actually part of it, as of 2021. ^[1]

List of commanders

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• COL Timothy R. Coffin, 27 July 2006 ^[20]
• COL Jeffrey A. Farnsworth, 10 July 2008 ^[20]
• COL Eric P. Henderson, 30 June 2010 ^[21]
• COL James R. Meisinger, July 2012 ^[22]
• COL Thomas L. James, 11 July 2014 ^[23]
• COL Richard Zellmann, 21 June 2016 ^[24]
• COL Eric D. Little, 13 July 2018 ^[25]
• COL Brian C. Bolio, 1 July 2020 ^[26]
• LTC Whitney Hall, ~2020 (acting) ^{[27] [28] [29]}
• COL Donald K. Brooks, 5 March 2021 ^{[30] [29]}

References

Media related to 1st Space Brigade (United States) at Wikimedia Commons

• SMDC DCG-O
• Space Soldiers ready to defend the homeland against threats from the sky Sgt. Zachary Sheely, 100th Missile Defense Brigade (August 17, 2018)
• Army Space Support Teams (ARSSTs) from the Colorado Army National Guard's 117th Space Support Battalion ^[1]