Global Positioning System Site
Marshall Islands /
Kwajalein /
Ebeye /
World
/ Marshall Islands
/ Kwajalein
/ Ebeye
World
military, satellite/space tracking station
This installation, linked with the NIST labs master atomic clocks in Boulder Colorado, monitors the GPS satellite signals and sends, if needed, correction signals to the satellites.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 8°43'23"N 167°43'53"E
- Bucholz Army Airfield (KWA/PKWA) 1.5 km
- Meck 32 km
- Dyess Army Airfield (ROI/PKRO) 81 km
- Wreck of HIJMS RO-39 317 km
- Wreck of USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56) 852 km
- Battle of Tarawa 1000 km
- Red Beach No. 3 1002 km
- Black Beach No. 2 1002 km
- Wake Island Airfield (PWAK / AWK) 1183 km
- Wake Island Atoll 1186 km
- Kwajalein 0.9 km
- Kwajalein Atoll 61 km
- Roi Namur 80 km
- Lae Atoll 165 km
- Wreck of HIJMS RO-42 167 km
- Wotho Atoll 246 km
- Wotho Island 248 km
- Rongelap 288 km
- Rongelap Atoll 306 km
- Ailinginae Atoll 307 km