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US Air Force Satellite Communications System.
Satellitbaseret system for kommunikation, kontrol og kommando til
USAs luftvåbens strategiske styrker.
Operations center, known
as the Blue Cube, of the Air Force Satellite Control Facility at
Sunnyvale AFS, California. The Air Force Ballistic Missile Division
(AFBMD) first established an interim satellite control center at a
facility belonging to Lockheed Missile and Space Division in Palo
Alto, California, on 15 August 1958. The installation in Sunnyvale
was originally referred to as the Satellite Test Annex, then as
Sunnyvale AFS, and finally as Onizuka AFS.2 The control center at
Sunnyvale was complemented at one time or another by remote
tracking stations established at nine different locations between
1959 and 1961. In later years, some of those tracking stations were
taken out of service, others were added,3 and a second control
center was also added—the Consolidated Space Operations
Center (CSOC), located at Schriever AFB, Colorado. At the time this
overview, AIR FORCE SATELLITE CONTROL NETWORK, was written, there
were eight remote tracking stations. Their locations (with the
years in which they were built) were as follows: Vandenberg
Tracking Station (1959) at Vandenberg AFB, California; New
Hampshire Station (1959) near New Boston, New Hampshire; Hawaii
Tracking Station (1959) on the island of Oahu, Hawaii; Thule
Tracking Station (1962) at Thule AFB, Greenland; Guam Tracking
Station (1965) at Anderson AFB, Guam; Oakhanger Telemetry Control
Station (1978) near London, United Kingdom; Colorado Tracking
Station (1989) at Falcon AFB, Colorado; and Diego Garcia Tracking
Station (1991) on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian
Ocean.
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