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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
1960–65
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| tracking station
n. A station for observing the path of and maintaining contact with an object in the atmosphere or in space especially by means of radar or radio. |
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