Computerized Map Display
by Bettmann
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Computerized Map Display
Artist
Bettmann
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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(Original Caption) Space Tracks Underground. Colorado Springs, Colorado: There's something new under the ground at Colorado Springs. The North American Air Defense Command's Battle Staff inside Cheyenne Mountain there, can now see the routes space satellites will take in the future as they circle the globe. The NORAD Space Defense Center, also in the underground complex, has long had the capability to predict future positions of satellites. Center technicians and NORAD computer programmers have come up with a way to put those forecasts on the display screen in the Combat Operations Center. The result is that the battle staff can see the paths a satellite will follow for as many as 12 revolutions in the future. The one here, charted on the screen by an electronic computer, is a US-launched weather-reconnaissance satellite and the traces indicate its present position, as well as the
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May 13th, 2020
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