Solid State Phased Array Radar System
The Solid State Phased Array Radar System is a United States Space Force radar, computer, and communications system for missile warning and space surveillance. There are SSPARS systems at five sites: Beale Air Force Base, CA, Cape Cod Space Force Station, MA, Clear Space Force Station, AK, RAF Fylingdales, UK, and Pituffik Space Base, Greenland. The system completed replacement of the RCA 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System when the last SSPAR was operational at then-Clear Air Force Station in 2001.
BMEWS solid-state phased-array radar at RAF Fylingdales
Cape Cod Space Force Station
Cape Cod Space Force Station is a United States Space Force station located in the northwest corner of Joint Base Cape Cod, United States, on Flatrock Hill in Bourne, Massachusetts. Cape Cod Space Force Station began construction in 1976 as Cape Cod Missile Early Warning Station and was renamed Cape Cod Air Force Station in 1982, before assuming its current name in 2021.
Aerial view of Cape Cod Space Force Station during the mid-1980s
Member of Air Force Security Forces standing watch in front of the PAVE PAWS installation at Cape Cod SFS, 2021.
The entrance to the station while designated an Air Force Station
Radar screen for the PAVE PAWS at Cape Cod AFS, 1986.