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TLM-18 Space Telemetry Antenna and Building 9162, the original Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) control station at the InfoAge Science and History Museums, located at former U.S. Army Camp Evans, in Wall, N.J., July 7, 2021. During the 1960s, it served as the Downlink Ground Communications Center for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s TIROS I and TIROS II weather satellites. Army Signal Corps scientists also used the 60-foot antenna for Earth-Moon-Earth, or “moon bounce,” research and strategic military communications. Camp Evans traces its roots to 1912 when it was developed by Guglielmo Marconi as the East-Coast base of trans-Atlantic wireless communication. During World War I, it served as a communications laboratory. In 1941, the U.S. Army bought the property – renaming it Camp Evans and used it as a radar technology research facility. After World War II, it served as a Cold War research facility drawing on a diverse group of scientists and engineers, including African Americans and women, to work on emerging technologies. (New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs photo by Mark C. Olsen)
| Date Taken: | 07.07.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 08.27.2021 15:10 |
| Photo ID: | 6807235 |
| VIRIN: | 210707-Z-AL508-3043 |
| Resolution: | 5472x3648 |
| Size: | 5.99 MB |
| Location: | WALL, NEW JERSEY, US |
| Web Views: | 246 |
| Downloads: | 10 |
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