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Background. Until 2006, Cheyenne Mountain was the center for the United States Space Command and NORAD which monitored the air space of Canada and the United States through a worldwide system for early warnings of missiles, space systems, and foreign aircraft. The operations center was moved from an above-ground facility, vulnerable to missile ...
NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex (January 20, 1965) [ 1]: 14. The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is a United States Space Force installation and defensive bunker located in unincorporated El Paso County, Colorado, next to the city of Colorado Springs, [ 2] at the Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, [ a] which hosts the activities of several tenant ...
[1]: 4 The Air Defense Command was transferred to Colorado Springs' [2] Ent Air Force Base on January 8, 1951. [3] [a] Starting September 1953, the base was the headquarters for the U.S. Army Anti-Aircraft Command. [4] [b] The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) was established and activated at the Ent Air Force Base on September 12, 1957.
The base was the location of the Air Force Space Command headquarters from 1987 to 20 December 2019 and has had NORAD/NORTHCOM command center operations since the 2006 Cheyenne Mountain Realignment placed the nearby Cheyenne Mountain Complex on standby. On 26 July 2021, the installation was renamed Peterson Space Force Base to reflect its ...
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A fictionalized Cheyenne Mountain NORAD base was the setting for the 1983 movie WarGames. Cheyenne Mountain is the base of the fictional SGC (Stargate Command) and the location of the stargate in the military science fiction show Stargate SG-1. The Mountain was featured in the 2016 film, Independence Day: Resurgence.
From 1957 to 1963, the base was the site of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which subsequently moved to the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station. The base became the Ent Annex to the Cheyenne Mountain facility in 1975. The base was closed in 1976. [1]
Staff Sgt. Alex Garviria and 2nd Lt. Rachel James work in the Global Strategic Warning and Space Surveillance System Center Sept. 2, 2014, at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Colo. Garviria is ...