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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tracking station1

First recorded in 1960–65
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

But a serious disturbance had arisen at the tracking station.

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