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I believe NASA does have a few UHF stations elsewhere, or at least used to. As of a 1998 document about the shuttle program [1], they listed 6 UHF air-to-ground
by _delirium 12y ago
I believe NASA does have a few UHF stations elsewhere, or at least used to. As of a 1998 document about the shuttle program [1], they listed 6 UHF air-to-ground stations, 3 of them in other countries. The U.S.-based ones were in Guam, Hawaii, and Florida; and the others were in Ascension Island (a British dependency halfway between Africa and South America), Bermuda (a British dependency off the east coast of Canada), and Dakar, Senegal.
[1] http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/sts-jsc-comm.html http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/s...
- jdmichal 12y agoJust a clarification: Bermuda is not really close to any major coastline, and certainly not the Canadian one. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bermuda/@31.2546129,-41.5200126,4z https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bermuda/@31.2546129,-41.52...
- toomuchtodo 12y ago850 miles (closest point is in North Carolina) isn't necessarily far.
- jdmichal 12y agoWhen someone says "off the coast", I would not expect 850 miles of distance. And, even more, when they say "off the east coast", I would not expect it to be almost directly south of the east coast. Those were the points I was attempting to relay.