tracking station

noun

1. a facility equipped with instrumentation for following the flight path of, communicating with, and collecting data from a rocket or spacecraft.

tracking station

noun

1. a station that can use a radio or radar beam to determine and follow the path of an object, esp a spacecraft or satellite, in space or in the atmosphere

Word History and Origins

Origin of tracking station¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

It should be well within the means for a tracking station to set up such a system.

From MIT Technology Review

Straggling behind them came nearly all the personnel of the tracking station.

From Project Gutenberg

A bald-headed member of the tracking station staff walked in.

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"It's the China Sea tracking station for satellites," she told him.

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They heard a babble of voices coming from the satellite-tracking station.

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But a serious disturbance had arisen at the tracking station.

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