Thule Tracking Station (TTS)
Greenland /
Udenfor kommunal inddeling /
Pituffik /
World
/ Greenland
/ Udenfor kommunal inddeling
/ Pituffik
World
military, United States Air Force, satellite/space tracking station
Callsign: POGO
Thule Tracking Station (TTS) is the home of Detachment 3 (Det 3) of the 22d Space Operations Squadron. Det 3 is the largest and northernmost unit of eight worldwide satellite tracking stations in the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN). The 22d Space Operations Squadron, a unit of the 50th Space Wing, headquartered at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, operationally controls Det 3 within the AFSCN.
Detachment 3, also known as Thule Tracking Station (TTS), was first designated as Operating Location 5, 6594th Test Wing (Satellite), Air Force Systems Command, on 15 October 1961. Originally a classified location, TTS was declared operational on 30 March 1962. Thule Tracking Station has grown from a single, van-mounted antenna in 1961, to four operational antennas performing functions for customers of the AFSCN. Since 1961, the site has performed over 500,000 satellite contacts.
On June 1, 1997, Det 3 came under the control of 22 SOPS. On May 1, 2004, the 22nd Space Operations Squadron was realigned under the newly established 50th Network Operations Group.
Det 3 has three Automated Remote Tracking Station systems [AN/FSQ-151(V)] operating three antennas ranging in size from 23 feet (10 meters) to 46 feet (14 meters) in diameter. Det 3 is so far north that it can communicate with polar orbiting satellites on every revolution around the Earth but is not positioned to communicate with satellites in geostationary orbit.
www.thule.af.mil/units/
www.sanelson.com/TTS.htm
www.thuleab.dk/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl...
Thule Tracking Station (TTS) is the home of Detachment 3 (Det 3) of the 22d Space Operations Squadron. Det 3 is the largest and northernmost unit of eight worldwide satellite tracking stations in the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN). The 22d Space Operations Squadron, a unit of the 50th Space Wing, headquartered at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, operationally controls Det 3 within the AFSCN.
Detachment 3, also known as Thule Tracking Station (TTS), was first designated as Operating Location 5, 6594th Test Wing (Satellite), Air Force Systems Command, on 15 October 1961. Originally a classified location, TTS was declared operational on 30 March 1962. Thule Tracking Station has grown from a single, van-mounted antenna in 1961, to four operational antennas performing functions for customers of the AFSCN. Since 1961, the site has performed over 500,000 satellite contacts.
On June 1, 1997, Det 3 came under the control of 22 SOPS. On May 1, 2004, the 22nd Space Operations Squadron was realigned under the newly established 50th Network Operations Group.
Det 3 has three Automated Remote Tracking Station systems [AN/FSQ-151(V)] operating three antennas ranging in size from 23 feet (10 meters) to 46 feet (14 meters) in diameter. Det 3 is so far north that it can communicate with polar orbiting satellites on every revolution around the Earth but is not positioned to communicate with satellites in geostationary orbit.
www.thule.af.mil/units/
www.sanelson.com/TTS.htm
www.thuleab.dk/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Satellite_Control_Network
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 76°30'57"N 68°36'0"W
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- Pituffik Space Base (formerly and perhaps better known as Thule Air Base) 7 km
- Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, Site I, Thule 9 km
- Camp Century 203 km
- ECHELON - Canadian Forces Station Alert 678 km
- Alert, Nunavut 680 km
- CFS Alert Airport 680 km
- Former CAM-E DEW Line Radar Site 1119 km
- Nord, Greenland 1159 km
- Nord, Greenland 1177 km
- Qeqertarsuaq 113 km
- Northumberland Island 127 km
- Coburg Island 290 km
- Guide Bay 355 km
- Philpots Island 355 km
- Crocker Bay 450 km
- Lancaster Sound 509 km
- Devon Island 513 km
- North Kent Island 553 km
- Maxwell Bay 592 km
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