우주작전전대
ROKAF unit established December 2022 to conduct space surveillance and space-threat operations against North Korea; absorbed an earlier space unit launched in 2019. Operates five divisions including a Space Operations Center, Space Surveillance Team, and Space Control Team.
All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
In 2022, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force organized the Space Operations Group.
Star Signal Solutions Inc. signed a memorandum with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Space Operations Group on November 28, 2025, to strengthen public-private partnerships in space situational awareness (SSA).
The Space Operations Group is composed of the 1st Space Operations Squadron, which operates the SSA system, the 2nd Space Operations Squadron, which monitors interference with Japan's satellites, the 1st Space System Management Squadron, which maintains space-related systems primarily at the Fuchu base, and the 2nd Space System Management Squadron, which maintains space-related systems at the Hofu North base.
Since spring of 2024, the Air Self-Defense Force Space Operations Group has been operating a device to determine whether satellites used by Japan are being jammed.
Tim Kokan, principal engineer at Aerojet Rocketdyne, presented the company’s lunar lander study at a 2020-01-30 meeting of the Future In-Space Operations group.