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Royal Air Force Fylingdales (RAF Fylingdales) is a Royal Air Force station on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Its motto is Vigilamus ("We are watching"). [1] It is a radar base and is also part of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS).
RAF Fylingdales in North Yorkshire provides a continuous ballistic missile early warning service to the UK and US Governments, ensuring a surprise missile attack cannot succeed. The RADAR is capable of tracking objects including satellites and debris, 3000 miles into space.
RAF Fylingdales may not be one of the most well-known Royal Air Force stations but its role in keeping the UK safe is vital. It forms part of the UK and US governments’ Ballistic Missile Early ...
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High in the North Yorkshire Moors you'll find a unique military site. It's called RAF Fylingdales and is the UK's Ballistic Missile Early Warning System.
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On the North Yorks Moors sits RAF Fylingdales. It provides a continuous ballistic missile early warning service to the UK and US Governments, and is therefore a key component of the UK and US nuclear deterrent. Satellites and space debris in Low Earth Orbit behave the same way as incoming warheads. To distinguish missile attacks from spacecraft and...
We're running a project that aims to open the history and present operations of RAF Fylingdales to the public. We want to promote the way space activities have been entangled in our lives. From this, we will develop social analysis. This will be led by an innovative application of creative research practices with social science.
Central to our work is establishing the Fylingdales Archive. It will allow public access to the large collection of artefacts amassedover the years. Since the summer of 2020 a project team, led by curator Chloë Barker, has been sorting and cataloguing material. The materials are held within the RAF Fylingdales site. For security reasons, in-person ...
One of our approaches in the project is an innovative use of creative research practice. The aim of this is to gain insight into how practices of space monitoring and ballistic missile early warning impact on the world beyond the fenced perimeter of RAF Fylingdales. One Key Magicuses music and sound to make the electronic atmospheres produced by ra...
Jun 6, 2019 · The radar at RAF Fylingdales keeps track of more than 13,000 objects in space, from the International Space Station to a spatula dropped by an astronaut during a space walk, as well as over 4,000 satellites.
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Sep 26, 2023 · Situated on the North Yorkshire moors, RAF Fylingdales has always been more than just a base. Its iconic three ‘golf ball’ radomes became a signature landmark, making its presence felt till 1992 when they were replaced by the pyramid-shaped SSPAR (Solid-State Phased Array Radar).
