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tracking station

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tracking station [′trak·iŋ ‚stā·shən]
(engineering)
A radio, radar, or other station set up to track an object moving through the atmosphere or space.


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The Reagan Test Site also serves as a space launch complex, as a tracking station for manned space flight and NASA research projects.
The maps were made possible by an unusual hookup in which radar signals sent from NASA's Goldstone tracking station in California were bounced off the Martian surface and received by 26 of the 27 radio telescopes in the Very Large Array (VLA) near Socorro, N.
L-3 Telemetry-West is the heritage supplier of the AFSCN Automated Remote Tracking Station (ARTS) HPAs now in service worldwide to support Space Ground Link System (SGLS) command capabilities.
 
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