Afsc 1C651 Cdc/skt (Unit Review Exercises) Volume 4

Front 1

"The evolved expendable launch vehicle is a


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launch service.

Front 2

"Which space launch vehicle increases the US space launch industry's competitiveness in the international commercial launch services market?


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Evolved expendable launch vehicle.

Front 3

"Which space launch vehicle has a payload capability of up to 13,440 lbs to low earth orbit and 4,790 lbs to geosynchronous transfer orbit?


(601-Spacelift fundamentals)"

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Delta II.

Front 4

"Which space launch vehicle uses deactivated Minuteman II first and second stages?


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Minotaur I.

Front 5

"Which space launch vehicle has a (+/-) 1,312 feet orbital altitude accuracy and (+/-) 0.04 degree inclination accuracy?


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Dnepr.

Front 6

"Which space agency's mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to Europe and the world?


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European Space Agency.

Front 7

"Which space launch vehicle family is comprised of 12 different vehicles?


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Long March.

Front 8

"Which space launch vehicle is a three stage vehicle with four strap-on boosters and a launch capacity of 4,000 lbs to geosynchronous transfer orbit?


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Geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle.

Front 9

"What are the two types of rocket staging?


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Serial and parallel.

Front 10

"Which rocket motor is simple to build, inherently more reliable and cheaper to produce?


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Solid-propellant.

Front 11

"What type of solid-propellants have both an oxidizer and a fuel combined into a single molecule?


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Homogenous.

Front 12

"Which of the following IS NOT an ideal characteristic of solid-propellants?


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Hygroscopic.

Front 13

"What is a rough measure of how fast the propellant is ejected out of the back of the rocket engine?


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Specific impulse.

Front 14

"What is the rotational movement of a body that occurs about the longitudinal axis through the body?


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Roll.

Front 15

"What is the lateral rotational movement of a body about its transverse axis?


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Yaw.

Front 16

"What machine is a self-contained navigation system capable of determining a vehicle's position in inertial space through the double integration of the output of accelerometers?


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Inertial navigation unit.

Front 17

"What facility extends from Cape Canaveral, northeastward to Argentia, Newfoundland, Canada, and southeastward to Ascension Island?


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Eastern Range.

Front 18

"What organization's mission is to provide world-wide customers high quality, requirements tailored, range operations; operations support management; and scheduling services?


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1st Range Operations Squadron.

Front 19

"At the 1st Range Operations Squadron, which of the following IS NOT a 1C6X1 generation duty?


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Making the Go/No-Go decision.

Front 20

"At the 1st Range Operations Squadron, how many nautical miles of coverage does the digital Brite radar indicator tower equipment provide?


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60.

Front 21

"What location is the primary US launch facility to launch satellites into polar orbit?


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Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Front 22

"At the 2d Range Operations Squadron, which of the following IS NOT a 1C6X1 execution duty?


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Ensures aircraft are available for post-mission operations.

Front 23

"What 1C6X1 duty is unique to the Western Range?


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Aeronautical operations.

Front 24

"During what launch preparation sequence is a space launch vehicle put through a series of system level and integrated tests?


(604-Launch phases)"

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Erecting.

Front 25

"What launch preparation phase constitutes a simulated flight and verifies all functions from engine ignition to payload separation?


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Integrated testing.

Front 26

"What terminal countdown sequence includes last minute mechanical and electrical installations and vehicle securing?


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Final countdown.

Front 27

"What is accomplished during the post-launch phase?


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Fire and safety personnel inspect the launch pad for fire and safety hazards.

Front 28

"The amount of time it takes to conduct the most fuel efficient launch refers to the launch


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window.

Front 29

"What inclination will a launch from the Equator have, if the launch is heading true east (90°)?


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0°.

Front 30

"Which of the following instruments is used to detect field and particle phenomena?


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Magnetometers.

Front 31

"Which of the following IS NOT part of the structures and mechanisms subsystem?


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Space launch vehicle's payload fairing.

Front 32

"Which of the following IS NOT a satellite energy source?


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Hybrid.

Front 33

"What type of battery is used as a continuous energy source and is NOT rechargeable?


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Primary.

Front 34

"What component is the heart of a fuel cell by generating electricity in the form of direct current?


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Fuel cell stack.

Front 35

"What is used to protect solar cells from radiation damage?


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Layers of quartz or sapphire.

Front 36

"In what common method of solar cell construction are the solar cell edges overlapped?


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Shingle mounting.

Front 37

"Which of the following is the basic physical process by which a radioisotope thermoelectric generator converts the heat generated from the natural decay of radioactive fuel into electricity?


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Thermoelectric effect.

Front 38

"Power conditioning components that detect abnormal current usage, identify potential faults such as shorted circuits, and withhold power to prevent damage are referred to as power


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control electronics.

Front 39

"Which of the following subsystems sends control signals to the thrusters, solar array positioners, and communication/payload positioners?


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Attitude control.

Front 40

"What type of attitude control occurs when the interaction between the satellite and the environment produce natural stabilizing torque?


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Passive control.

Front 41

"In what reaction control system is thrust developed from the rapid expansion of a pressurized propellant through a jet nozzle?


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Pressurized gas.

Front 42

"Measures are NOT used in space to protect satellite propellants from


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pilfering.

Front 43

"Which of the following subsystems includes all the equipment necessary for the satellite to transmit telemetry (downlink) and to receive commands from the ground station (uplink)?


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Telemetry, tracking, and control.

Front 44

"Which of the following subsystems keeps a satellite within certain temperature limits?


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Thermal control.

Front 45

"What type of thermal control subsystem does not consume energy and possesses none or few moving parts?


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Passive.

Front 46

"Which satellite system provides navigation and timing information to military and civilian users worldwide?


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Global positioning system.

Front 47

"Which of the following satellites include a new military signal (M-Code) on both the L1 and L2 channels, and a more robust civil signal (L2C) on the L2 channel?


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Global positioning system Block IIR-M.

Front 48

"What is the secondary mission of the global positioning system?


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Nuclear detonation detection.

Front 49

"On a global positioning system Block IIR satellites, which of its axes points towards the sun?


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- X.

Front 50

"Which of the following global positioning system subsystems contains the components that provide precise time and ephemeris data to the L-B and subsystem?


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Navigation subsystem.

Front 51

"Which global positioning system sensor is used to detect light emitted by an atmospheric nuclear detonation?


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An optical sensor.

Front 52

"Which space operations squadron operates the global positioning system master control station?


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2 SOPS.

Front 53

"Which satellite system provides global, visual and infrared meteorological cloud and geophysical data to the Air Force Weather Agency and US civilian agencies?


(608-Defense Meteorological Satellite Program)"

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Defense meteorological satellite program.

Front 54

"Which defense meteorological satellite program sensor measures temperatures over previously inaccessible regions and at higher altitudes?


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Temperature profiler.

Front 55

"What type of subsystem is used by the defense meteorological satellite program to unload momentum about a particular axis?


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Magnetic coils.

Front 56

"Which of the following satellite systems provides enhanced worldwide military communication capabilities?


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Defense satellite communications system.

Front 57

"What defense satellite communications system subsystem takes power from the solar arrays, and batteries, and conditions it to a regulated 28 Volt main bus line?


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Electrical power subsystem.

Front 58

"What defense satellite communications system subsystem IS NOT pressure regulated?


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Propulsion subsystem.

Front 59

"What Milstar subsystem allows the space ground link subsystem (SGLS) operators to contact the satellite by accepting and processing the SGLS signal?


(610-Milstar)"

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Telemetry, tracking, and control subsystem.

Front 60

"What Milstar terminal provides tactical users with secure, survivable, anti-jam, low probability of intercept and detection satellite communications in a HUMM-V?


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Secure mobile anti-jam reliable tactical-terminal.

Front 61

"Which of the following satellite systems provides flexible, high-capacity communications for our nation's warfighters within the 500 MHz X-band and 1 GHz Ka-band spectrum?


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Wideband global SATCOM system.

Front 62

"Which wideband global SATCOM system provides for X- and Ka-Band repeaters as well as X- and Ka-Band beacons, and a Baseband Digital switch?


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Payload.

Front 63

"Which wideband global SATCOM system components are used for station keeping and momentum unloading?


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Back 63

Xeon ion engines.

Front 64

"What types of signals consist of patterns of bits of information (expressed by a binary code of ""0"" or ""1"")?


(612-Data Links)"

Back 64

Digital signal.

Front 65

"What type of data interface uses light pulses to transmit information?


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Back 65

Fiber-optic cable.

Front 66

"What type of transmission provides for each data bit to be handled sequentially or one at a time?


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Back 66

Serial.

Front 67

"What determines the physical size of an antenna?


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Operating frequency.

Front 68

"What antenna characteristic is the ratio between the amount of energy that is propagated in a particular direction compared to the amount of energy that is propagated if the antenna were not directional?


(613-Antenna Components)"

Back 68

Gain.

Front 69

"What is the process of pointing the ground antenna at a satellite that is emitting a signal?


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Acquiring.

Front 70

"What tracking method uses the ground equipment to transmit equally time-spaced pulses to the satellite?


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Passive.

Front 71

"What tracking method is a precise digital ranging signal modulated onto the uplink carrier?


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Pseudo-random noise.

Front 72

"Which of the following subsystems reduces the downlink signal from a microwave, super-high frequency or extremely-high frequency, to an intermediate frequency that can be handled by ground equipment?


(614-Data Flows)"

Back 72

Downconverter.

Front 73

"Which of the following subsystems combines individual uplink signals such as command, timing, and range into a composite signal?


(614-Data Flows)"

Back 73

Baseband assembly.

Front 74

"What can be used to compute a nominal element set for a satellite that is about to be injected into orbit?


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R–15 message.

Front 75

"Which of the following contains the formulas, biases, and modifiers used to predict where a satellite will be at a given date and time?


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Back 75

Orbit determination program.

Front 76

"What is normally used to initially acquire a newly launched satellite?


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R–15 message and nominal element set.

Front 77

"What device displays pertinent mission information and provides an interface to other equipment such as the ground station mainframes?


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Mission workstation.

Front 78

"What is the primary difference between real-time commands and stored program commands?


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Time of execution.

Front 79

"When does a crew begin preparations for a satellite contact?


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Approximately 20 minutes prior to a scheduled satellite pass.

Front 80

"During which of the following contact stages does the crew carefully verify all actions were accomplished?


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Postpass.

Front 81

"What command and control system -- consolidated subsystem generates simulated satellite telemetry and ground system data in support of training and evaluation activities?


(617-Command and Control System -- Consolidated)"

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Simulation.

Front 82

"What command and control system -- consolidated subsystem is where the bulk of CCS-C activity occurs?


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Telemetry and commanding.

Front 83

"What command and control system -- consolidated workstation is used to analyze and generate orbit determination reports, view the technical orders, monitor the contact schedule, and edit crew logs?


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Orbital analysis.

Front 84

"What command and control system -- consolidated crewmember's responsibility is the health and operation of their constellation?


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Satellite vehicle operator.

Front 85

"Which of the following systems support national space programs by providing telemetry, tracking, and control services?


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Air Force satellite control network.

Front 86

"Which of the following Air Force satellite control network segments enables the execution of the three primary mission phases: planning, contact support and evaluation?


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Command and control.

Front 87

"What automated remote tracking station functional component is used to transmit and receive signals to and from the satellite?


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Telemetry, tracking, and control antenna.

Front 88

"What tool is used by schedulers to notify all affected Air Force satellite control network users when changes occur?


(618-Air Force Satellite Control Network)"

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Electronic scheduling dissemination.

Front 89

"What Air Force satellite control network priority is used when a user identifies for immediate payload commanding; failure to do so will result in deterioration of primary payload performance?


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Critical payload commanding.;