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Minitrack
/ ˈmɪnɪˌtræk /
noun
- obsolete.a system for tracking the course of rockets or satellites by radio signals received at ground stations
Word History and Origins
Origin of minitrack1
Example Sentences
When OSO passes over a Minitrack radio station, it is given a signal that makes the tape reverse its motion and quickly send its data down to earth.
He is a thrill-seeking visitor at Northridge, outside Los Angeles, one of seven sites in California where anyone with a driver's license and a few dollars can safely savor some of the adrenaline-pumping, gut-clutching fever of Grand Prix racing�on a minitrack, in a scaled-down Formula 1 speedster.
Minitrack radio transmitter that the real satellite will carry, its power suitably reduced to make up for the difference in altitude.
When the first real satellite takes to space, ten Minitrack receiving stations will be ready in the U.S.,
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