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View synonyms for tracking station

tracking station

noun

  1. a facility equipped with instrumentation for following the flight path of, communicating with, and collecting data from a rocket or spacecraft.


tracking station

noun

  1. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tracking station1

First recorded in 1960–65
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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.

From Reuters

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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