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Project Mercury MSFN stations. The Mercury Space Flight Network (MSFN) was completed in 1961, and consisted of 18 ground tracking stations and two ships in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to close gaps between ground stations. [2] [3] [4] 1) Mercury Control Center (CNV), Cape Canaveral, Florida Recreation of Mercury Control Center
Histories of the Space Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN), the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN), and the NASA Communications Network (NASCOM). NASA SP-2007-4233 - Sunny Tsiao (2007). "Read You Loud and Clear!" The Story of NASA's Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network. Network stations list; STADAN Station in Shoe Cove, Newfoundland
TDRS Program Logo Location of TDRS as of March 2019 An unflown TDRS on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.. The U.S. Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS, pronounced "T-driss") is a network of American communications satellites (each called a tracking and data relay satellite, TDRS) and ground stations used by NASA for space communications.
The TRID Database (Transportation Research International Documentation) is a database that combines the records from USA Transportation Research Board's Transportation Research Information Services database and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Joint Transport Research Centre's International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database.
The MILA tracking station with the Vehicle Assembly Building in the distance.. The Merritt Island Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network station, known in NASA parlance as MILA, was a radio communications and spacecraft tracking complex located on 61 acres (0.25 km 2) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. [1]
The Minitrack Network was the first U.S. satellite tracking network to become operational, in 1957. It was used to track the flights of Sputnik, Vanguard, Explorer, and other early space efforts. Minitrack was the progenitor of Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) and the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN).
Kaena Point Space Force Station is a United States Space Force installation in Kaena Point on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.It is a remote tracking station of the Satellite Control Network responsible for tracking satellites in orbit, many of which support the United States Department of Defense, receiving and processing data and in turn, enabling control of satellites by relaying commands from ...
Thule Site J (J-Site) is a United States Space Force (USSF) radar station in Greenland near Pituffik Space Base for missile warning and spacecraft tracking.The northernmost station of the Solid State Phased Array Radar System, the military installation was built as the 1st site of the RCA 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System and had 5 of 12 BMEWS radars.