X-Nico

unusual facts about ground station



Courier 1B

After completing its first orbit, a message from US President Dwight Eisenhower to the United Nations was transmitted from the Deal Test Site, an off-base transmission facility of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey and relayed to a ground station in Puerto Rico.

StudSat

The Ground Station NASTRAC (Nitte Amateur Satellite Tracking Centre) which is established in NMIT was inaugurated by Dr K. Radhakrishnan, the current chairman of ISRO.


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Attitude control

Typically, the attitude control algorithms are part of the software running on the hardware which receives commands from the ground and formats vehicle data Telemetry for transmission to a ground station.

Herbert Dargue

On December 16, 1914, he flew a Burgess Model I seaplane with 1st Lt. Joseph O. Mauborgne of the Signal Corps as his radio operator, making the first two-way communication by radio telegraphy between a ground station and an airplane in flight.

International Ultraviolet Explorer

For most of its lifetime, the telescope was operated in three eight-hour shifts each day, two from the US ground station at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, and one from the ESA ground station at Villanueva de la Cañada near Madrid.

Liljeholmen metro station

In the beginning of the 2000s (decade), the station was rebuilt to an under-ground-station, with a new 3rd platform for trains towards Fruängen/Norsborg, which is connected to a new under-ground-bus-terminal, and above the station, new squares and houses were built.

Nikon NASA F4

The original development team included NASA Civil Servant electronic and mechanical design and fabrication, Lockheed development of the Electronic Still Camera ground station, Nikon Engineering supplying a modified Nikon F4 camera body, and Ford Aerospace and JPL development of the CCD image sensor.

Octatron SkySeer

The ground station's recorder can store up to twenty hours of high-quality MPEG-2 format video which can then be transferred to DVD or Macromedia Flash.

On Orbit Mission Control

The United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado will operate a backup ground station for PicoSAT satellite to increase the amount of experimental data.

Radarsat-1

Kongsberg Satellite Services of Norway, among several other external partners, provides ground station services for Radarsat-2 including the provision of data under Canadian Space Agency science programmes.

Schilling Air Force Base

The ground station has been redeveloped, being used by Kansas State University at Salina and Salina Area Technical College.

Yishun MRT Station

It was the second above-ground station to have half-height platform screen doors installed and commence operations, after Pasir Ris.