Automated Remote Tracking Stations
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the RTSs were modernized with the addition of the Automated Remote Tracking Station (ARTS) systems. The ARTS systems provided more responsive support and reduced the manpower required at each site through semi-automation. In addition to upgrading all the existing sites, the ARTS Phase I program added the following sites to the AFSCN:
- Colorado Tracking Station at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, which was decommissioned in August 2012 and will be dismantled in FY2013
- Thule Tracking Station "C" side, which was decommissioned in 2011 and dismantled that summer
- Telemetry and Command Station "B" side
- Diego Garcia Station "A" side
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