Thule Tracking Station
The Thule Tracking Station is a U.S. Air Force installation in Greenland. It is near Thule Air Base and has a Remote Tracking Station of the U.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network. It was originally the classified 6594th Test Wing '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 bomb assembly building." The permanent RTS equipment was emplaced in 1964, and a communications terminal was emplaced on Pingarssuit Mountain--Thule Site N-32 (moved to Thule Site J in 1983. TTS transferred to Detachment 3, 22nd Space Operations Squadron, in 1992 and includes a "fully equipped mini-fitness center". 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.
