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  • Thumbnail for Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network
    The Spacecraft Tracking and Data (Acquisition) Network (STADAN or STDN) was established by NASA in the early 1960s to satisfy the requirement for long-duration...
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  • Thumbnail for Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
    Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS, pronounced "T-driss") is a network of American communications satellites (each called a tracking and...
    19 KB (2,544 words) - 03:42, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for NASA Deep Space Network
    at an altitude of 30,000 km (19,000 mi), a spacecraft is always in the field of view of one of the tracking stations. The International Telecommunication...
    45 KB (4,937 words) - 00:48, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spacecraft
    A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications,...
    49 KB (5,536 words) - 19:00, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Soyuz (spacecraft)
    Soyuz (Russian: Союз, IPA: [sɐˈjus], lit. 'Union') is a series of spacecraft which has been in service since the 1960s, having made more than 140 flights...
    41 KB (3,995 words) - 09:52, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Space debris
    no longer serve a useful function. These include derelict spacecraft (nonfunctional spacecraft and abandoned launch vehicle stages), mission-related debris...
    171 KB (17,356 words) - 19:51, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ground station
    geostationary orbit, is called a ground tracking station, or space tracking station, or simply a tracking station. When a spacecraft or satellite is within a ground...
    13 KB (1,254 words) - 16:39, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for STARGATE
    STARGATE—Spacecraft Tracking and Astronomical Research into Gigahertz Astrophysical Transient Emission—is a radio-frequency (RF) technology facility which...
    12 KB (1,067 words) - 16:31, 7 June 2024
  • Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) for tracking satellites in low Earth orbit, and the Deep Space Network (DSN) for tracking more...
    17 KB (2,206 words) - 13:23, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orroral Valley Tracking Station
    Orroral Valley tracking station was an Earth station in Australia, supported Earth-orbiting satellites, as part of NASA's Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition...
    4 KB (374 words) - 21:49, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station
    the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, a week before the Moon landing Copy of telex sent to Director of Honeysuckle Creek tracking station Apollo Road...
    9 KB (668 words) - 00:55, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Merritt Island Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network station
    Island Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network station, known in NASA parlance as MILA, was a radio communications and spacecraft tracking complex located...
    9 KB (1,132 words) - 18:58, 17 April 2023
  • Space Network (category NASA radio communications and spacecraft tracking facilities)
    relay platforms. For spacecraft operating in a low Earth orbit (LEO) 73 km to 3000 km altitude, the SN is capable of providing tracking and data acquisition...
    6 KB (628 words) - 16:09, 7 July 2024
  • Minitrack (category NASA radio communications and spacecraft tracking facilities)
    and other early space efforts. Minitrack was the progenitor of Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) and the Manned Space Flight...
    12 KB (1,814 words) - 21:47, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chinese Lunar Exploration Program
    Length of Coastline, and Maritime Claims". "China Builds Advanced Spacecraft Tracking and Command Network". www.spacedaily.com. China, Russia agree cooperation...
    36 KB (3,065 words) - 05:50, 10 October 2024
  • today under the control of the Air Force and is a major producer of spacecraft tracking data. The original schedule called for the TV3 to be launched during...
    22 KB (2,589 words) - 05:01, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Very-long-baseline interferometry
    resolution. VLBI is best known for imaging distant cosmic radio sources, spacecraft tracking, and for applications in astrometry. However, since the VLBI technique...
    21 KB (2,443 words) - 00:22, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cooby Creek Tracking Station
    NASA's Application Technology Satellite Program and was a part of the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network. It was designed to be portable, and...
    7 KB (844 words) - 13:28, 27 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tracking and data relay satellite
    A tracking and data relay satellite (TDRS) is a type of communications satellite that forms part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS)...
    13 KB (1,316 words) - 15:03, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Goddard Space Flight Center
    computer support and radar tracking of flights through a worldwide network of ground stations called the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network...
    38 KB (4,065 words) - 14:29, 6 October 2024
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