Sentence examples for tracking station from inspiring English sources

The United States used the atoll as a tracking station for antiballistic missiles beginning in 1970; the tracking station is no longer on the island.

The Ministry of Defence later secretly used Lovell as a nuclear missile tracking station.

China gave Kiribati $250,000 a year for rental of the tracking station.

It was used (1957 62) as a tracking station for U.S. guided missiles.

The frequency and the phase of the satellite oscillator are monitored in the ground tracking station.

Finally, an improved scheme for the tracking station distribution was designed based on the original scheme.

In the early 1960s a U.S. Air Force satellite-tracking station was built in the mountains in the centre of the island.

Nearby lie the ruins of another Australian satellite-tracking station once owned by NASA, called Orroral Valley, which supported the Space Shuttle Columbia missions, among others; it was closed in 1985, and later demolished.

As part of the strategy, the US will also deploy a radar-tracking station in Japan.

When Kiribati, another country of sun-baked atolls and lagoons just to the south, had links with Beijing, it allowed the Chinese to build a satellite-tracking station on the island of Tarawa.

The satellite-tracking station at Hartebeesthoek was built by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASAandand was used to receive data from U.S. space missions until 1974, when it became a radio astronomy observatory.