ECHELON Main Stations
Location
| Country
| Target/Task
| Relations
|  MORWENSTOW
| UK
| INTELSAT, Atlantic, Europe, Indian Ocean
| NSA, GCHQ
| SUGAR GROVE
| USA
| INTELSAT, Atlantic, North and South America
| NSA
| YAKIMA FIRING CENTER
| USA
| INTELSAT, Pacific
| NSA
| WAIHOPAI
| NEW ZEALAND
| INTELSAT, Pacific
| NSA, GCSB
| GERALDTON
| AUSTRALIA
| INTELSAT, Pacific
| NSA, DSD
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| MENWITH HILL
| UK
| Sat, Groundstation, Microwave(land based)
| NSA, GCHQ
| SHOAL BAY
| AUSTRALIA
| Indonesian Sat
| NSA, DSD
| LEITRIM
| CANADA
| Latin American Sat
| NSA, CSE
| BAD AIBLING
| GERMANY
| Sat, Groundstation
| NSA
| MISAWA
| JAPAN
| Sat
| NSA
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| PINE GAP
| AUSTRALIA
| Groundstation
| CIA
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| FORT MEADE
| USA
| Dictionary Processing
| NSA Headquarters
| WASHINGTON
| USA
| Dictionary Processing
| NSA
| OTTAWA
| CANADA
| Dictionary Processing
| CSE
| CHELTENHAM
| UK
| Dictionary Processing
| GCHQ
| CANBERRA
| AUSTRALIA
| Dictionary Processing
| DSD
| WELLINGTON
| NEW ZEALAND
| Dictionary Processing
| GCSB Headquarters
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Misawa Air Base
Latitude: 40.771, Longitude: 141.3776
Misawa Air Base is located in Misawa City, on the shores of Lake Ogawara in northeastern Honshu, Japan's main island. The Department of Defense presence at Misawa includes more than 15,000 military and civilian personnel and family members, including 4500 military personnel. The installation has experienced significant growth and development over the past ten years. From Misawa the NSA monitors Russian and other regional communications satellites.
The Misawa Passive Radio Frequency (RF) space surveillance site tracks satellites using RF signal emmisions to compute angle of arrival observations. This site provides coverage of geosynchronous satellites utilizing the Deep Space Tracking System (DSTS).
 http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/nssrm/initiatives/misawa.htm
 http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/nssrm...
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Sugar Grove Station
Latitude: 38.497387 Longitude: -79.273876
Sugar Grove Naval Communications Facility, near Sugar Grove, WV, intercepts Pacific INTELSAT/COMSAT satellite communications traffic routed through the COMSAT ground station at Etam, WV. This facility has four antenna, with diameters of 9.2, 18.5, 32.3 and 46 meters.
Source: http://www.fas.org/irp/nsa/nsafacil.html
http://www.fas.org/irp/nsa/nsafacil.html
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