Space Development and Test Wing

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|unit_name= Space Development and Test Wing

|image= Space Development and Test Wing.png

|image_size= 200px

|caption= Emblem of the SDTW

|dates= August 2006-present

|country= United States

|branch= Air Force

|type= Space system test and evaluation

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|command_structure= Air Force Space Command

|garrison= Kirtland Air Force Base

|decorations= 75 px AFOEA

|commander1= [https://web.archive.org/web/20110719235304/http://www.kirtland.af.mil/library/biographies/bio.asp?id=11204 Col Burke E. Wilson]

|commander1_label= Commander

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The Space Development and Test Wing (SDTW) was a unit of Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center of the United States Air Force. The wing is located at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The unit was combined with another Space and Missile Systems Center directorate and is now known as the Advanced Systems and Development Directorate."SMC stands up new Advanced Systems and Development Directorate", 24 Nov 2014. https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/554895/smc-stands-up-new-advanced-systems-and-development-directorate/

Mission

The Space Development and Test Directorate develops, tests and evaluates Air Force space systems, executes advanced space development and demonstration projects, and rapidly transitions capabilities to the warfighter.{{cite web |url=http://www.kirtland.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=6881 |title=Fact Sheets : Space Development and Test Wing : Space Development and Test Wing |website=www.kirtland.af.mil |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813170054/http://www.kirtland.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=6881 |archive-date=2007-08-13}}

History

The Space Development and Test Wing was activated 1 August 2006. Prior to that, Detachment 12 of the Space and Missile Systems Center had been activated at Kirtland AFB 29 June 2001, taking responsibility for research, developmental test and evaluation organizations that had been co-located at Kirtland AFB alongside the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles and Directed Energy Directorates.{{cite web |url=http://www.kirtland.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=6881 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813170054/http://www.kirtland.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=6881 |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 August 2007 | title=Space Development and Test Wing Fact Sheet | author=US Air Force | publisher=SMC}}

Lineage
Detachment 2, Space and Missile Systems Center, Onizuka AS, CA
SMC, Test and Evaluation Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM
Detachment 12, Space and Missile Systems Center, Kirtland AFB, NM (activated 29 June 2001)
Space Development and Test Wing, Kirtland AFB, NM (activated 1 Aug 2006)
Advanced Systems and Development Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM"SMC stands up new Advanced Systems and Development Directorate", 24 Nov 2014. https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/554895/smc-stands-up-new-advanced-systems-and-development-directorate/
Past Directors and Commanders
Craig Martin, Colonel, USAF (retired)
James Ford, Colonel, USAF (retired)
Ralph Monfort, Colonel, USAF (retired)

Operations

Units

The Space Development and Test Wing is divided into two Groups, the Space Development Group and the Space Test Group.

Space Development Group
Responsive Space Squadron
Responsive Satellite Command and Control Division
Human Spaceflight Payloads Division - Houston, TX
Space Test Group
Space Test Squadron
SOC 96 - Schriever AFB
SOC 97 - Kirtland AFB
Space Test Operations Squadron
Launch Test Squadron

References

{{USGovernment | url=http://www.kirtland.af.mil|agency=United States Air Force}}