Dual AN/FSC-78 Heavy Earth Terminals (Sunnyvale, California)

Former site of Sun East (SVE) and Sun West (SVW), dual heavy earth terminals with 60-foot parabolic dishes. The dishes have since been removed and the pedestal bases capped off.

www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/an-fsc-78.htm
msl.jpl.nasa.gov/QuickLooks/dscs3QL.html
Categories: data center, closed / former military, historical layer / disappeared object, United States Air Force, satellite/space tracking station
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Coordinates:  37°24'13"N 122°1'44"W

Comments

  • As of January 2011, these dishes have been disassembled, and are in the process of being removed from site.
  • Worked at those Satellite Terminals in 1976 and '77. Fun times. USAF
  • I took them out
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