Sentence examples for tracking stations in from inspiring English sources

ESA says it will use its other tracking stations, in French Guiana, Spain, and the Canary Islands to try to keep in touch with the craft.

It involves coordinating a spacecraft with detailed pointing constraints that vary on time scales ranging from years to hours, tracking stations in four different countries, ground radio telescopes in nearly 20 different countries with different capabilities at the VSOP observing frequencies, and correlation and tape copying facilities with four different recording formats.

Mr Tong's trump card was a satellite tracking station in Tarawa, set up by the Chinese in 1997.

The NASA announcement said a deep-space tracking station in South Africa had tracked the spacecraft and "it appears we have a nominal (expected normal) flight".

Some time later, a tracking station in Africa picked up the satellite's signal, confirming that it had gone into orbit.

Australian scientists are gearing up for a historic moment in space exploration as a tracking station in Canberra becomes responsible for receiving the world's first close-up images of Pluto on Tuesday evening.

Among the responders: a Pentagon missile tracking station in Florida that sits just south of the launching pad. Malcolm Monroe, who manages the station, said on Monday that his colleagues had been filming the liftoff to check their equipment, and realized the day of the disaster that their pictures might prove useful.

In the early morning hours of Feb. 1, 1958, William Pickering, director of the laboratory that had assembled America's answer to Sputnik, was waiting for word from a tracking station in California that the craft, the nation's first satellite, had gone around the Earth exactly once.

Nasa received a first communication from the cruising spacecraft about 50 minutes after lift-off through a tracking station in Canberra, Australia.

The accuracy of precise point positioning (PPP) in the vertical component is significantly improved for tracking station in the low latitudes of the eastern hemisphere.

ESA says that at 20 25 GMT on 22 November, its tracking station in Perth, Australia whose 15-meter dish had been specially adapted to improve its chances of contacting the probe picked up the signal.