Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network

Index Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network

The Spacecraft Tracking and Data (Acquisition) Network (STADAN or STDN) was established by NASA in the early 1960s to satisfy the requirement for long-duration, highly-available space-to-ground communications. [1]

46 relations: Antananarivo, Antofagasta, Apollo program, Ascension Island, Atlantic Ocean, Australia, Barstow, California, Brown Field Municipal Airport, California, Canada, Canberra, Carnarvon, Western Australia, Chile, Chula Vista, California, Cooby Creek Tracking Station, Cooper's Island, Bermuda, Crete, East Grand Forks, Minnesota, Ecuador, England, Fairbanks, Alaska, Florida, Fort Myers, Florida, Goddard Space Flight Center, Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, Greece, Johannesburg, Lima, Madagascar, Manned Space Flight Network, Minnesota, NASA, NASA Deep Space Network, NASCOM, Newfoundland and Labrador, Orroral Valley Tracking Station, Pakistan, Peru, Pouch Cove, Quito, Rosman, North Carolina, Santiago, South Africa, Toowoomba, Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, Winkfield.

Antananarivo

Antananarivo (French: Tananarive), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Antananarivo · See more »

Antofagasta

Antofagasta is a port city in northern Chile, about north of Santiago.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Antofagasta · See more »

Apollo program

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Apollo program · See more »

Ascension Island

Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, 7°56' south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Ascension Island · See more »

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Atlantic Ocean · See more »

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Australia · See more »

Barstow, California

Barstow is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Barstow, California · See more »

Brown Field Municipal Airport

Brown Field Municipal Airport is in the Otay Mesa neighborhood of San Diego, California, southeast of Downtown San Diego and named in honor of Commander Melville S. Brown, USN, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1936.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Brown Field Municipal Airport · See more »

California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and California · See more »

Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Canada · See more »

Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Canberra · See more »

Carnarvon, Western Australia

Carnarvon is a coastal town situated approximately north of Perth, Western Australia.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Carnarvon, Western Australia · See more »

Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Chile · See more »

Chula Vista, California

Chula Vista (beautiful view) is the second largest city in the San Diego metropolitan area, the seventh largest city in Southern California, the fourteenth largest city in the state of California, and the 74th-largest city in the United States.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Chula Vista, California · See more »

Cooby Creek Tracking Station

Cooby Creek Tracking Station, an Earth station in Australia, was located north of Toowoomba, Queensland.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Cooby Creek Tracking Station · See more »

Cooper's Island, Bermuda

Cooper's Island is part of the chain which makes up Bermuda.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Cooper's Island, Bermuda · See more »

Crete

Crete (Κρήτη,; Ancient Greek: Κρήτη, Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Crete · See more »

East Grand Forks, Minnesota

East Grand Forks (also known as EGF) is a city in Polk County, Minnesota, United States.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and East Grand Forks, Minnesota · See more »

Ecuador

Ecuador (Ikwadur), officially the Republic of Ecuador (República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Ikwadur Ripuwlika), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Ecuador · See more »

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and England · See more »

Fairbanks, Alaska

Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Fairbanks, Alaska · See more »

Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Florida · See more »

Fort Myers, Florida

Fort Myers or Ft.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Fort Myers, Florida · See more »

Goddard Space Flight Center

The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Goddard Space Flight Center · See more »

Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex

The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC), commonly called the Goldstone Observatory, is located in the Mojave Desert near Barstow in the U.S. state of California.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex · See more »

Greece

No description.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Greece · See more »

Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Johannesburg · See more »

Lima

Lima (Quechua:, Aymara) is the capital and the largest city of Peru.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Lima · See more »

Madagascar

Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Madagascar · See more »

Manned Space Flight Network

The Manned Space Flight Network (abbreviated MSFN, pronounced "misfin") was a set of tracking stations built to support the American Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab space programs.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Manned Space Flight Network · See more »

Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Minnesota · See more »

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and NASA · See more »

NASA Deep Space Network

The NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) is a worldwide network of US spacecraft communication facilities, located in the United States (California), Spain (Madrid), and Australia (Canberra), that supports NASA's interplanetary spacecraft missions.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and NASA Deep Space Network · See more »

NASCOM

The NASA (Ground) Communications System (NASCOM) manages terrestrial communications between ground stations, mission control centers, and other elements of spacecraft ground segments, providing worldwide, near real-time transmission of commands, telemetry, voice, and television signals.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and NASCOM · See more »

Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; Akamassiss; Newfoundland Irish: Talamh an Éisc agus Labradar) is the most easterly province of Canada.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Newfoundland and Labrador · See more »

Orroral Valley Tracking Station

The Orroral Valley tracking station, an Earth station in Australia, supported Earth-orbiting satellites, as part of NASA's Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN).

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Orroral Valley Tracking Station · See more »

Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Pakistan · See more »

Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Peru · See more »

Pouch Cove

Pouch Cove is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Pouch Cove · See more »

Quito

Quito (Kitu; Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador, and at an elevation of above sea level, it is the second-highest official capital city in the world, after La Paz, and the one which is closest to the equator.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Quito · See more »

Rosman, North Carolina

Rosman is a town in Transylvania County, North Carolina, United States.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Rosman, North Carolina · See more »

Santiago

Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Santiago · See more »

South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and South Africa · See more »

Toowoomba

Toowoomba (nicknamed 'The Garden City') is a city in the Darling Downs region in the Australian state of Queensland.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Toowoomba · See more »

Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System

The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) is a network of American communications satellites (each called a Tracking and data relay satellite (TDRS)) and ground stations used by NASA for space communications.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System · See more »

Winkfield

Winkfield is a village and civil parish in the Bracknell Forest unitary authority of Berkshire, England.

New!!: Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network and Winkfield · See more »

Redirects here:

NOCC, STADAN, STDN, Space Flight Tracking and Data Network, Space Tracking and Data Acquisition Network, Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_Tracking_and_Data_Acquisition_Network

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »