Radar tracking units for NASA Project Mercury at Eglin air force base in Florida,United States. MPQ-31 antenna rotating. Operator at control console. An FPS-16 radar unit antenna rotating.
Operators at work in NASA Project Mercury tracking facility at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. An FPS-16 operator at control console.Other equipment seen include time signal receiver and time standard equipment. Several technicians are seen, some performing diagnostic testing of equipment.. (Note: The FPS-16 units originally planned for the Project Mercury tracking network did not have adequate displays and controls to reliably acquire the spacecraft during orbit. So NASA had them modified to double their range and also incorporated data-handling equipment to facilitate transmissions from all sites to the Mercury Project computers.)
A man works on teletype in tracking station for project Mercury at Eglin air force base in Florida,United States. Words being typed on a paper.
Inaugural person to person voice communication between Inspector General of Uruguayan Air Force and an official at United States Air force headquarters. Inspector General speaks over a phone to the official using SITFA ,( System Interamericano de Telecommunicaciones de Furezas Aereas) a single sideband voice communication system that enables 15 Latin American countries to converse among themselves. Uruguayan flag is seen in the Inspector General's office.
SITFA ( System Interamericano de Telecommunicaciones de Furezas Aereas) station in Uruguay as an antenna rotates. Air Force officers work on controls and take down notes.
Technicians work on various instruments in a laboratory at SITFA ( System Interamericano de Telecommunicaciones de Furezas Aereas) station in Uruguay as an Air Force officer monitors their work. They also work on controls.
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