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ECHELON, originally a secret government code name, is a surveillance program (signals intelligence/SIGINT collection and analysis network) operated by the five signatory states to the UKUSA Security Agreement: [1] Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, also known as the Five Eyes.
This list also includes stations that were formerly carried, but have since been dropped. Some of the stations listed also have their over-the-air signal overlapping major cities in Canada; a few are also available over-the-air only in Canada. The stations are organized by market, starting in the east and ending in the west . Not all stations ...
CFS Leitrim, located south of Ottawa, is Canada's oldest operational signal intelligence collection station. Established by the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals in 1941 as I Special Wireless Station and renamed Ottawa Wireless Station in 1949, CFS Leitrim acquired its current name when the Supplementary Radio System was created in 1966.
A first satellite ground station for the ECHELON collection program was built in 1971 at a military firing and training center near Yakima, Washington. The facility, which was codenamed JACKKNIFE, became fully operational in May 1973 and was connected with NSA headquarters at Fort Meade by a 75-baud secure teletype orderwire channel. [4]
Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station: Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station: Geraldton, WA United States: ECHELON: Yes 18: Dongara Satellite Station: Yatharagga West Australian Space Centre: Near Yarragadee, WA United States: Earth station Tracking and Data Relay Satellite Facility - now operated by the Swedish ...
A United States Air Force Boeing RC-135 aircraft in flight Royal Air Force Hawker Siddeley Nimrod A52 Oste, an Oste class ELINT and reconnaissance ship, of the German Navy. Signals intelligence operational platforms are employed by nations to collect signals intelligence, which is intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether between people (i.e., COMINT or communications ...
The Gatineau Satellite Station is a Canadian satellite station located in Cantley near Gatineau, in the province of Québec. Like the Prince Albert Radar Laboratory , it was originally a military Radar station, operated by the Canadian Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE), a division of the Canadian Defense Research Board.
Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world. [5] [6] The location is on Ellesmere Island (in the Queen Elizabeth Islands) at latitude 82°30'05" north, 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole. [7]