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Eglin AFB Site C-6 is an Air Force Space Command radar station with the AN/FPS-85 phased array radar, associated computer processing system(s), and radar control equipment (e.g., MIT Radar Calibration System in 1996).〔() 〕 The entire radar/computer system is located at a receiver/transmitter building and is supported by the site's power plant, fire station, 2 water wells (for 128 people), and other infrastructure for the system to provide observations on space objects for "the Joint Space Operations Center satellite catalogue". ==Structures== ;Transmitter/receiver building: The antenna elements are mounted on the inclined faces of the transmitter/receiver building. and within the structure is the remainder of the radar, computer, and crew operations equipment. By 2012, the computer room had 2 "IBM ES-9000 mainframe computers, two RADAR and Interface Control Equipment cabinets, and two SunSparc workstations." In the squadron Mission Operations Center, "personnel use a screen with () objects assigned numbers, similar to an air traffic control screen." An attached garage is on the building's east side. ;Power building: The power building has an electrical generation system (cf. the earlier BMEWS "ELEC PWR PLANT" models AN/FPA-19 and -24.) ;Fire Station: In 2011, the site's fire station () was added to the USGS's Geographical Names Information System (the transmitter/receiver building is not listed.) ;Recreation facilities: A softball field and gymnasium are available. ;Monitoring station: A nearby monitoring station is used for processing a once-per-second calibration pulse transmitted by the radar. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eglin AFB Site C-6」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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