tracking station

tracking station

noun
a facility equipped with instrumentation for following the flight path of, communicating with, and collecting data from a rocket or spacecraft.

Origin:
1960–65
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Tracking station is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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tracking station
 
n
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

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