No. 1 Remote Sensor Unit RAAF

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No. 1 Remote Sensor Unit
Active1 July 1992
Branch RAAF
RoleRadar Surveillance [1]
Part of No. 41 Wing
Garrison/HQ RAAF Base Edinburgh
MottoNowhere to Hide

No. 1 Remote Sensor Unit (1RSU), formerly known as No. 1 Radar Surveillance Unit, was renamed on 2 May 2015. 1RSU is the Royal Australian Air Force unit responsible for operating the Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN). 1RSU is located at RAAF Base Edinburgh, Adelaide, South Australia.

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History and role

1RSU was established on 1 July 1992 to operate the initial JORN site at Alice Springs and moved to RAAF Base Edinburgh in 1999. The JORN sites at Longreach and Laverton were commissioned in mid-2003. In addition to the JORN sites, 1RSU operates the JORN Coordination Centre at RAAF Base Edinburgh, which is responsible for providing JORN data to the system's 'customers', which include the Australian Strategic Theatre Joint Intelligence Centre and Northern Command.

1RSU was the first space operations unit in the Australian Defence Force. [1] The unit remotely operated the C-Band Space Surveillance Radar and Space Surveillance Telescope installed at Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt in Exmouth, Western Australia. [2] Collectively, these systems provide a space situational awareness capability, allowing the tracking of space assets and debris [2] [3] 1RSU's space surveillance function was transferred to No. 1 Space Surveillance Unit in early 2023. [4]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Abbott, Jaimie (21 May 2015). "First Space Operations Unit" (PDF). Air Force: The Official Newspaper of the Royal Australian Air Force. Vol. 57, no. 9. Canberra: Department of Defence. pp. 12–13. OCLC   224490713.
  2. 1 2 Defence, Department of (7 July 2021). "Keeping an eye on space traffic". news.defence.gov.au. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "US Space Radar at Exmouth". DMO Bulletin (2). Defence Materiel Organisation. 2014. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "A big day for the space domain". Contact. 4 July 2023. Retrieved 13 November 2025.

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