
The official emblem of Space Force’s Space Training and Readiness Command, or STARCOM. (Image credit: U.S. Space Force)
By Brett Tingley,
Published by Space.com, 24 August 2022
The exercise brought together Space Force members with counterparts in the U.S. Army and Air Force.
The U.S. Space Force just completed a major joint training exercise that saw participants engage in simulated orbital combat.
The exercise, known as Space Flag 22-3, took place from Aug. 8 to Aug.19 at Schriever Space Force Base in Colorado. Close to 120 Space Force personnel from multiple U.S. Space Force Deltas took part in the training alongside counterparts from the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army, according to a Space Force statement. The training was conducted by Space Force’s training and education component, Space Training and Readiness Command (STAR Command or STARCOM).
Space Flag 22-3 presented realistic training opportunities that “challenged players to consider complex astrodynamics while maneuvering and operating during simulated on-orbit combat engagements” in a “contested, degraded and operationally-limited environment,” the statement continues.
“I really enjoyed watching our Soldiers, Airmen, and Guardians mission plan and then prosecute the fight against realistic threats to space capabilities,” U.S. Army Col. Donald Brooks, 1st Space Brigade commander, said in the statement.
Space Flag 22-3 offered trainees the opportunity to “refine combat tactics in space domain awareness, intelligence, warning and surveillance, navigation warfare, orbital warfare and satellite communications” using a variety of simulations, both live and virtual, according to the statement.

The exercise was the first Department of Defense space exercise to receive accreditation as a Joint National Training Capability. This designation applies to activities that offer servicemembers from across multiple branches of the armed forces a realistic combat training environment with “an adaptive and credible opposing force” that provides “high quality feedback,” according to the United States Joint Forces Command.
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