Laredo Air Force Station ( FUDS Site No. K06TX021600) was a Cold War radar station of the

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in Texas. It had an

AN/FPS-17 The AN/FPS-17 was a ground-based fixed-beam radar system that was installed at three locations worldwide, including Pirinçlik Air Base (formerly Diyarbakir Air Station) in south-eastern Turkey, Laredo, Texas and Shemya Island, Alaska. This syste ...

, an AN/FPS-78 (used during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis' Falling Leaves radar network), and the last

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. Northeast of

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, located at and supported by the city's

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, Laredo AFS tracked

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tests, provided satellite tracks such as for the 1958 Sputnik III to Project Harvest Moon, and sent missile warning data to

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's CCPDS computers.

Laredo test site

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, access-date=2014-04-21 Installations of the United States Air Force in Texas Aerospace Defense Command military installations Air Defense Command radar stations 1956 establishments in Texas 1980 disestablishments in Texas Military installations established in 1956 Military installations closed in 1980