An Entity of Type: historic place, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Arkansas Research and Test Station or ARTS, is a historic satellite ground station in the hills of Montgomery County, Arkansas. It was built in 1965 by the Space Systems Division of the Hughes Aircraft Company, and operated until 1969. It includes a paraboloid antenna 85 feet (26 m) in diameter and a utilitarian control building located nearby. It is the only surviving ground station from that period capable of sending and receiving communications with a satellite; the only other one ever built, located in Andover, Maine, has had its antenna dismantled.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The Arkansas Research and Test Station or ARTS, is a historic satellite ground station in the hills of Montgomery County, Arkansas. It was built in 1965 by the Space Systems Division of the Hughes Aircraft Company, and operated until 1969. It includes a paraboloid antenna 85 feet (26 m) in diameter and a utilitarian control building located nearby. It is the only surviving ground station from that period capable of sending and receiving communications with a satellite; the only other one ever built, located in Andover, Maine, has had its antenna dismantled. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. (en)
dbo:area
  • 4046.856422 (xsd:double)
dbo:nearestCity
dbo:nrhpReferenceNumber
  • 100001650
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 55804905 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 1992 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1111914016 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbo:yearOfConstruction
  • 1965-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbp:added
  • 2017-09-21 (xsd:date)
dbp:area
  • Less than (en)
dbp:builder
  • Hughes Space Systems Division (en)
dbp:locmapin
  • Arkansas#USA (en)
dbp:name
  • Arkansas Research and Test Station (en)
dbp:nearestCity
dbp:refnum
  • 100001650 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
georss:point
  • 34.370111111111115 -93.66583333333334
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The Arkansas Research and Test Station or ARTS, is a historic satellite ground station in the hills of Montgomery County, Arkansas. It was built in 1965 by the Space Systems Division of the Hughes Aircraft Company, and operated until 1969. It includes a paraboloid antenna 85 feet (26 m) in diameter and a utilitarian control building located nearby. It is the only surviving ground station from that period capable of sending and receiving communications with a satellite; the only other one ever built, located in Andover, Maine, has had its antenna dismantled. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Arkansas Research and Test Station (en)
owl:sameAs
geo:geometry
  • POINT(-93.665832519531 34.370109558105)
geo:lat
  • 34.370110 (xsd:float)
geo:long
  • -93.665833 (xsd:float)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • (en)
  • Arkansas Research and Test Station (ARTS) (en)
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License