As part of the strategy, the US will also deploy a radar-tracking station in Japan.

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Charles Force was the director of the NASA tracking station in Guam, where the family was living.

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The agency reports that its tracking station in Perth, Australia, picked up a signal from the Phobos-Grunt probe.

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Once at the tracking station, Greg reached into the tiny hole and packed grease around the failed bearing.

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The Guam tracking station was to play a critical role in the return of Apollo 11 to Earth.

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The European Space Agency reported that its tracking station near Perth, Australia, received a signal from the probe this morning.

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One blurry image from an Air Force tracking station in New Mexico, taken about a minute before the shuttle disintegrated, shows what some observers have interpreted as a jagged leading edge on the left wing.

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"They talk about what great weather we're having, but that's actually the reason we're having such terrible allergies, " said Guy Robinson, who manages the pollen tracking station at Lincoln Center, which is associated with Fordham University.

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Is that something that you guys are tracking from the Space Station?

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When will the final diet-tracking product reach the space station?

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The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but it was not letting the station communicate with Nasa's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, the US space agency said.

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Collectors of perfect tracking shots will be thrilled by one in a tube station during the Blitz.

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It packs a pair of HD cameras along with a thermal imager and can stay aloft permanently, in theory, thanks to a microfilament tether attached to a ground station -- which also makes it impervious to weather, tracking and interception at the same time, according to CyPhy.

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