The Minitrack Network was the first U.S. satellite tracking network to become operational, in 1957. It was used to track the flights of Sputnik, Vanguard...

Geophysical Year (IGY) scientific satellites, and a 5 mW, 108.03 MHz Minitrack transmitter powered by six solar cells were used as part of a radio phase-comparison...

first US system, Minitrack, was already in existence at the time of the Sputnik launch, but the US quickly discovered that Minitrack could not reliably...

Satellite Program. Instrumentation included: Laser Tracking Reflectors NASA Minitrack System Optical Beacon System Radio Doppler System Radio Range/Rate System...

constructing, and testing the satellites. The tracking system was called Minitrack. The Minitrack stations, designed by NRL but subcontracted to the Army Corps of...

included: C-Band Radar Transponder Laser Tracking Reflector Magnetometer NASA Minitrack System Optical Beacon System Precipitating Electron Detector Radio Doppler...

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) Optical Tracking Network US Minitrack Applied Physics Laboratory Transit Network (Tranet) Interkosmos network...

Probably this detection of the Explorer 1 signal was actually made at the Minitrack station at Brown Field, a US Navy airfield near San Diego. This station...

Digital slave worked by receiving primary tracking data from the NASA Minitrack network of stations. The computer would then issue antenna-pointing commands...

space-to-ground communications. The network was the “follow-on” to the earlier Minitrack, which tracked the flights of Sputnik, Vanguard, Explorer, and other early...