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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
Word History and Origins
Origin of tracking station1
Example Sentences
Taiwan's official Central News Agency said a weather tracking station on Orchid Island recorded Taiwan's strongest wind in 126 years as the typhoon hit late Wednesday.
Forest Service to fund and install a $10,000 tracking station at Bear Divide.
It operates a satellite tracking station in Argentina that reports to the People’s Liberation Army and has no oversight from local officials in Buenos Aires.
The Chinese currently operate a space tracking station on Tarawa atoll in Kiribati.
He worked ground electronics at a tracking station near Madrid, Spain, with stations also in Australia and California, to keep continual track of the signal sent by the spacecraft.
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