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Thule Site J (J-Site) is a United States Space Force (USSF) radar station in Greenland near Pituffik Space Base for missile warning and spacecraft tracking.The northernmost station of the Solid State Phased Array Radar System, the military installation was built as the 1st site of the RCA 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System and had 5 of 12 BMEWS radars.
Thule Air Station (ADC ID: G-32) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 9.2 miles (14.8 km) south of Thule Air Base , Greenland. It was closed in 1965.
Texas Towers were a set of three radar facilities off the eastern seaboard of the United States which were used for surveillance by the United States Air Force during the Cold War. Modeled on the offshore oil drilling platforms first employed off the Texas coast, they were in operation from 1958 to 1963.
Closed. Re-opened in 1958 as Pyote Air Force Station, an air defense radar station Randolph Air Force Base: San Antonio: Texas: 2010 Realigned as part of Joint Base San Antonio [11] Reese Air Force Base: Lubbock: Texas: 1997 Closed [17] Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base: Kansas City: Missouri: 1994 Closed Sampson Air Force Base: Geneva: New York: 1956
1989 aerial view. Pituffik Space Base (/ b iː d uː ˈ f iː k / bee-doo-FEEK; [2] Greenlandic:; IATA: THU, ICAO: BGTL), formerly and perhaps better known as Thule Air Base (/ ˈ t uː l iː /), is a United States Space Force base located on the northwest coast of Greenland in the Kingdom of Denmark under a defense agreement between Denmark and the United States.
The two PAVE PAWS, three BMEWS, and the PARCS & FPS-85 radar stations transferred to Strategic Air Command (then Space Command) in 1983. [24] By 1981 Cheyenne Mountain was providing 6,700 messages per hour [47] including those based on input from the PAVE PAWS and the remaining FSS-7 stations. [48]
Of all the mysteries and wonders of the Christmas season, one of the greatest for local children from 1956 through 1989 was Taft’s Santa radar sightings on the Christmas Eve 10 p.m. news.
Located on the site of the former Naval Air Station, Duncanville, with a mission to provide radar coverage of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the 745th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron began operating an AN/CPS-6B and an AN/FPS-10 radar at this site on 1 February 1953, and initially the station functioned as a Ground-Control Intercept (GCI ...