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The Thule Tracking Station (TTS, 76°30′57″N 68°36′0″W / 76.51583°N 68.6°W / 76.51583; -68.6) is a Greenland military installation near Thule Air Base and which has a Remote Tracking Station (callsign: POGO) of the U.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network. Originally the classified 6594 TW's Operating Location 5 designated by Air Force Systems Command on October 15, 1961: the station was operational on March 30, 1962, with "transportable antenna vans parked in an old [SAC] bomb assembly building."[1] The permanent RTS equipment was emplaced in 1964,[1] and a communications terminal was emplaced on Pingarssuit Mountain--Thule Site N-32[2] (moved to Thule Site J in 1983.[1] TTS transferred to Detachment 3, 22nd Space Operations Squadron, in 1992 and includes a "fully equipped mini-fitness center".[1] The stations "C-side" of electronics was removed in summer 2011 and the upgrade to an Automated Remote Tracking Station is forecast to be completed in 2015.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 title tbd (Report). MilitaryOneSource.mil. http://www.militaryonesource.mil/12038/Plan%20My%20Move/Thule%20Information.pdf. Retrieved 2014-03-16. 
  2. Fletcher, Harry R. Air Force Bases (Report). Volume II: Air Bases Outside the United States of America. 
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