The New Norcia Tracking station is located 140 kilometres north of Perth, in Western Australia, close to the town of New Norcia. It is operated by Xantic.
The 35-metre diameter antenna with transmission and reception in both S- and X-bands, is designed for deep-space satellite missions and provides daily support to Mars Express, Rosetta and Venus Express in its Routine phase, and in the ...
The Katsuura Tracking and Communication Station's facilities include four parabolic antennas, tracking and control building, electric building, and Nonozuka collimation building.
The Katsuura Tracking and Communication Station was established in Katsuura, Chiba, in February, 1968 as Katsuura radiowave tracking base of the Science and Technology Agency (STA) Space Development Headquarter...
TEAL AMBER: Space Surveillance site is an Optical Tracking Station in the Malabar Optics Laboratory in Florida. It consists of three optical tracking receiver systems.
It is one of two dedicated electro-optical telescopes, the other being at Haleakala, Maui that is code named TEAL BLUE. These telescopes are used primarily for near-earth and deep space satellite tracking and space objec...
"The Salt Pit"
CIA Interrogation Facility outsitde Kabul
On March 3, 2005, an article by Dana Priest titled "CIA Avoids Scrutiny of Detainee Treatment" and published in The Washington Post exposed the existence of a secretly-run CIA interrogation facility in Afghanistan code-named the "Salt Pit." Located to the north of Kabul's business district, the Salt Pit was r...
This is _not_ a duplicate of the 'Flags of the World', as it focuses mainly on information as well as on clickable resources, the flags are only for orientation. Additionaly all icons are included in the file.
This placemark displays the flags of all countries and territories listed in the CIA World Factbook and, when clicking on the flag, shows the background info from the book....
The Tanegashima Space Centre (TNSC) was established in 1969, when the original National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) was formed. It is the largest space-development facility in Japan (8,600,000 square meters) and is located in the south of Kagoshima Prefecture, along the southeast coast of Tanegashima. It is known as the most beautiful rocket-launch complex in the world.
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The CIA Drone base in Pakistan where UAV's could be seen until a recent article exposed the base. This is a new photo but much has changed at the base, including new hangers and a US made explosive resistant barrier surrounding the perimeter.
Colored polygons of of each country in the world with links to the applicable CIA World Factbook page. Click on a country see a pop up a balloon with a picture of that country’s flag and a link to the country’s CIA World Factbook page. You can also enable the locations of all the country capitals.