Hawaii Tracking Station (HTS), HULA

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This is the communications center. One of eight Remote Tracking Stations (RTS) maintained by the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN).

Detachment 4, 22d Space Operations Squadron, part of the 50th Space Wing, operates Hawaii Tracking Station (HTS, callsign HULA) on the site. It was constructed in 1959, one of three built that year. The facility is placed on the western-most point of the island of Oahu, atop a 1500 foot high ridge. Originally, the facility only had one large, exposed antenna. Today it has many smaller radomes and access roads up and around the ridge.

It supports ballistic missile testing conducted from Vandenberg Air Force Base and other areas in the Pacific. It also provides on­orbit support for low earth orbiting satellites and geosynchronous satellite over the eastern and central Pacific.