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    The Spacecraft Tracking and Data (Acquisition) Network (STADAN or STDN) was established by NASA in the early 1960s to satisfy the requirement for long-duration...
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    Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS, pronounced "T-driss") is a network of American communications satellites (each called a tracking and...
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    Island Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network station, known in NASA parlance as MILA, was a radio communications and spacecraft tracking complex located...
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  • communication networks at the time, the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) for tracking satellites in low Earth orbit, and the Deep...
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  • Thumbnail for NASA Deep Space Network
    The NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) is a worldwide network of spacecraft communication ground segment facilities, located in the United States (California)...
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    Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) scientific satellite tracking facility, a planet Jupiter monitoring system, and a Solar Particle...
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    Technology Satellite Program and was a part of the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network. It was designed to be portable, and the equipment was housed...
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    support and radar tracking of flights through a worldwide network of ground stations called the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STDN)...
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    European Space Tracking (ESTRACK) network ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) JAXA Near-Earth Tracking and Control Network China Satellite...
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    tracking station was an Earth station in Australia, supported Earth-orbiting satellites, as part of NASA's Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network...
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    Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1962. The site was part of the worldwide Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and an integral...
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    dedicated voice, data and TTY links. The mission of the ISTRAC includes:[citation needed] Tracking, commanding and housekeeping data acquisition as well as...
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    SOLRAD 8 (category Spacecraft launched in 1965)
    telemetry system and were recorded by the stations on the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) tracking network. The satellite observed...
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  • Minitrack (category NASA radio communications and spacecraft tracking facilities)
    Vanguard, Explorer, and other early space efforts. Minitrack was the progenitor of Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) and the Manned Space...
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  • platforms. For spacecraft operating in a low Earth orbit (LEO) 73 km to 3000 km altitude, the SN is capable of providing tracking and data acquisition services...
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    Space Shuttle (category Crewed spacecraft)
    used the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System and the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network ground stations to communicate with the orbiter...
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    support and radar tracking of flights through a worldwide network of ground stations called the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STDN)...
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    Territory, where it was used as a satellite tracker within the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and then for support to NASA crewed missions...
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  • communication networks at this time, the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) for tracking unmanned satellites in low Earth orbit, and the...
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  • used for rapidly tracking Earth-orbiting spacecraft. They were originally built to support the Apollo lunar missions between 1967 and 1972. The 26 m subnet...
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    NASCOM (category NASA radio communications and spacecraft tracking facilities)
    three tracking and acquisition networks at the time: the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN), the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN)...
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  • space flight tracking and data network, and Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system with Goddard Space Flight Center. Guidance, navigation, and controls...
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    Maspalomas Station (category Buildings and structures in Gran Canaria)
    Antananarivo, on Madagascar (part of the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network). In the late 1970s and early 1980s, ESA began to expand operations...
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    during its extended mission and was declared lost. The spacecraft was part of NASA's Sun-Earth Connections Program, and its data has been used in over 400...
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    Explorer 29 (category Spacecraft launched in 1965)
    and reliable system. Acquisition and recording of data were the responsibility of the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Spacecraft Tracking and Data...
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    Deep Space Network run by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It is commonly referred to as the Tidbinbilla Deep Space Tracking Station and was officially...
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    the Deep Space Network, the spacecraft was able to simultaneously receive commands at 1.2 kilobits/second in the S-band and transmit data at 268.8 kilobits/second...
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    (ISIM), and the sunshield. Region 3 of ISIM is also inside the spacecraft bus. Region 3 includes the ISIM Command and Data Handling subsystem and the Mid-Infrared...
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  • Defense Agency (MDA) to research the space-based detection and tracking of ballistic missiles. Data from STSS satellites could allow interceptors to engage...
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    a special compartment and encompassed the Misty and Prowler spacecraft, each designed to minimize radar, visible, infrared, and laser signatures. Access...
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