a station that can use a radio or radar beam to determine and follow the path of an object, esp a spacecraft or satellite, in space or in the atmosphere
tracking station in American English
US
a station equipped to track the path of and record data from a spacecraft, satellite, etc.
Examples of 'tracking station' in a sentence
tracking station
We received an encrypted signal," the captain said, `a report from a fast flyby of an aircraft out of our Kwajalein tracking station.
Anderson, Kevin J. THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO (1995)