Earthstation
Underground command center for monitoring the skies and space for hostile incoming weapons. Cheyenne Mountain was built with the knowledge that it would be a primary target for a nuclear attack, and it is perhaps the most fortified large underground installation in the world. Even so, the military...
A peak next to the ocean near Ventura that has several aerospace functions. Facilities track and monitor launches of missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Point Mugu, and other sites. Laguna Peak's Naval Satellite Operations Station is part of a network of satellite control facilities,...
Part of a network of satellite control facilities, under operation by the Navy. Headquartered at Point Mugu, CA, the facilities include stations at Rosemount, MN, Laguna Peak, CA, and the Lincoln Laboratory in Massachusetts. The Navy, at one point, used its own system of satellites for navigation,...
Headquarters for the Space Warfare Center and a major control center for military satellites, through a complex of golf-ball-shaped radomes on base. The global positioning system (GPS) is also controlled from here, with the master clock on the base keeping the system in synch. The transfer of...
The antenna array at the U.S. Electrodynamics Comsat Earth Station near Brewster is the largest on the West Coast. Voice, data, and video is transmitted and received at the earth station, a vital communications link for several international corporate users of the facility. Serving mostly as a...
UMore Park is a mysterious multilayered R&Dscape of ruins and gated areas. This 12,000-acre area surrounded by farmland south of the Twin Cities has had a variety of uses since 1941, many of which have left interesting vestiges. In WW2 it was hurriedly built as Gopher Ordnance Works, making...
The "Yakima Research Station" is a secretive satellite earth station operated by the National Security Agency (NSA) to intercept satellite communications. The complex is located within the secure perimeter of the Army's Yakima Firing Range, in the relatively radio interference-free environment of...