Texas Manned Space Flight Network Tracking Station (Corpus Christi, Texas)
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Call sign "TEX".
TEX was a primary tracking station, allowing it to give direct commands to spacecraft systems. Secondary stations were primarily used for radar and telemetry data. From 1964 until 1974, it occupied part of the former WWII-era Rodd Field airfield.
history.nasa.gov/SP-4203/appf.htm
TEX was a primary tracking station, allowing it to give direct commands to spacecraft systems. Secondary stations were primarily used for radar and telemetry data. From 1964 until 1974, it occupied part of the former WWII-era Rodd Field airfield.
history.nasa.gov/SP-4203/appf.htm
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Space_Flight_Network
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 27°39'10"N 97°22'43"W
- Location of Naval Auxiliary Air Station Rodd Field 1.5 km
- Johnson Space Center (NASA) 308 km
- NASA White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) 1041 km
- Goldstone (GTS) Airport 2036 km
- Goldstone Deep Space Communications Tracking Station 2042 km
- NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center 2109 km
- Edwards Air Force Base 2132 km
- Aerojet/Air Force Plant 70 2529 km
- NASA Ames Research Center 2549 km
- Moffett Field (NUQ/KNUQ) 2549 km
- Naval Air Station Corpus Christi (NGP/KNGP) 11 km
- Nueces County 13 km
- Chapman Ranch Wind Farm 15 km
- Mustang Island State Park 20 km
- Padre Island National Seashore 27 km
- King Ranch - Laureles Division 28 km
- La Paloma-Lost Creek, Texas 36 km
- Baffin Wind Farm 57 km
- Penescal II Wind Farm 61 km
- Penescal Wind Farm 65 km
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