# Fairbanks

*Ground station*

Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 64.8600° N, 147.8500° W |
| State | US |
| What is done there | satellite ground station |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

The Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) is a data processing facility and satellite-tracking ground station within the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The facility's mission is to make remote-sensing data accessible Its work is central to polar processes research including wetlands, glaciers, sea ice, climate change, permafrost, flooding and land cover such as changes in the Amazon rainforest.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=64.86,-147.85
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Satellite_Facility
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.