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View synonyms for tracking station
tracking station
noun
- a facility equipped with instrumentation for following the flight path of, communicating with, and collecting data from a rocket or spacecraft.
tracking station
noun
- a station that can use a radio or radar beam to determine and follow the path of an object, esp a spacecraft or satellite, in space or in the atmosphere
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tracking station1
First recorded in 1960–65
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Example Sentences
It should be well within the means for a tracking station to set up such a system.
Straggling behind them came nearly all the personnel of the tracking station.
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A bald-headed member of the tracking station staff walked in.
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"It's the China Sea tracking station for satellites," she told him.
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They heard a babble of voices coming from the satellite-tracking station.
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But a serious disturbance had arisen at the tracking station.
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