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Pituffik Space Base: How the only US base in Greenland became central to space defense & Arctic strategy
The remote Pituffik Space Base in Greenland has returned to strategic focus as renewed U.S. interest in acquiring the Arctic ...
This article first appeared in print in the Stars and Stripes Global edition, Jan. 15, 2015. It is republished unedited in its original form. THULE AIR BASE, Greenland — It’s 8:36 on this early ...
How the Guardian reported the US military presence and establishment of airbases in the former Danish colony and county ...
The base is surrounded by ice for nine months of the year and experiences complete darkness for three months, yet it remains ...
Thule Air Base, the U.S.-run ballistic missile-warning site in Greenland, was retitled Pituffik Space Base in an April 6 ceremony at America’s northernmost military installation. Pituffik (pronounced ...
This article first appeared in print in the Stars and Stripes Global edition, Jan. 15, 2015. It is republished unedited in its original form. THULE AIR BASE, Greenland — Legend has it that Eric the ...
An Air-Deployable Expendable Ice Buoy is deployed in the high Arctic near the North Pole from a Royal Danish Air Force C-130 aircraft operating out of Thule Air Base in Greenland as part of the ...
Clouds roll over the Thule Tracking Station, known as callsign "POGO," operated by the 23rd Space Operations Squadron, Detachment 1, at Thule Air Base, now known as Pituffik Space Base, in Greenland, ...
The F-35s were involved in Operation Noble Defender in the Arctic Circle. For the first time, F-35A Lightning II aircraft of the U.S. Air Force were deployed to Greenland, to take part in Operation ...
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