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  • 1Kaena Point Satellite Tracking Station — thumb|Hawaii Tracking Station emblem. By Earl Kokobun, 1983The Kaena Point Satellite Tracking Station is a United States Air Force military installation in Kaena Point on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. It is a remote tracking station of the Air… …

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  • 2Satellite — This article is about artificial satellites. For natural satellites, also known as moons, see Natural satellite. For other uses, see Satellite (disambiguation). An animation depicting the orbits of GPS satellites in medium Earth orbit …

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  • 3Carnarvon Tracking Station — The Carnarvon Tracking Station in Western Australia was a tracking station built in 1963 for use by NASA for the Gemini program, the second step for NASA s plan to put a human on the Moon. It replaced the Muchea Tracking Station and used some of… …

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  • 4Satellite television — List of digital television broadcast standards DVB standards (Europe) DVB S (satellite) DVB S2 DVB T (terrestrial) DVB T2 DVB C …

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  • 5Satellite laser ranging — In satellite laser ranging (SLR) a global network of observation stations measure the round trip time of flight of ultrashort pulses of light to satellites equipped with retroreflectors. This provides instantaneous range measurements of… …

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  • 6Air Force Satellite Control Network — The Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) provides support for the operation, control, and maintenance of a variety of United States Department of Defense and some non­ DoD satellites. This involves continual execution of the tasks involved …

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  • 7La Posta Mountain Warfare Training Facility — (MWTF), located at convert|3500|ft|m|abbr=on elevation convert|50|mi|km east of San Diego, near the city of Campo, in San Diego County, is a convert|1063|acre|km2|0 training facility used by the Naval Special Warfare Center.HistoryThe… …

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  • 8Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground — Musudan redirects here. For the missile, see BM25 Musudan. Coordinates: 40°51′N 129°40′E / 40.85°N 129.667°E / 40.85; 1 …

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  • 9Merritt Island Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network station — 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… …

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  • 10Wallops Flight Facility — (WFF) Airport codes|WAL|KWAL, located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, is operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center primarily as a rocket launch site to support science and exploration… …

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