Fairbanks Command and Data Acquisition Station

NOAA's Fairbanks Command and Data Acquisition Station (FCDAS), also known as Gilmore Creek, is an operational satellite ground station at 1300 Eisele Road, north of Fairbanks, Alaska. NOAA describes 24/7 command, acquisition, maintenance and distribution of environmental-satellite data, supporting NOAA polar-orbiting spacecraft and other NASA, Department of Defense, USGS and international Earth-observation satellites. The Fairbanks site includes 26 m, 21 m, 13 m and smaller antenna systems across VHF, L, S, X and Ka bands, with additional geodetic and search-and-rescue equipment documented by NOAA. NASA lists FCDAS as a government Near Space Network ground-station asset in partnership with NOAA.