NASA in AK Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/14/2014
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The ASF Satellite-Tracking Ground Station . . .

  • Services polar-orbiting, Earth-imaging spacecraft from ASF's prime polar location.
  • Is one of the world's top university-operated ground stations.
  • Serves as the leading NASA ground station in Alaska.
  • Operates three antennas on behalf of NASA: an 11-meter S/X-band antenna installed in 2013, an 11-meter S/X-band antenna installed in 1995, and a 10-meter S/X-band antenna installed in 1988.
  • Provides telemetry downlink, uplink, command, and two-way coherent tracking services as one of 15 primary members of the international Near Earth Network (NEN), which is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. 
  • Operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
  • Distributes data focused on, but not limited to, synthetic-aperture-radar (SAR) data, primarily to scientific users. 
  • Is part of NASA's Near Earth Network, which provides services to orbital spacecraft from ground stations around the world.
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