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NORAD Continues Decades-Long Tradition of Tracking Santa's Trip Around the World
NORAD's 70-year tradition uses radar, satellites, and volunteers to track Santa's journey, answering nearly 300,000 calls from children worldwide on Christmas Eve.
- On Dec. 24, the North American Aerospace Defense Command will track Santa Claus in its 70th year, with the NORAD Santa Tracker going live at 6 a.m. ET.
- In 1955, a misprinted phone number sent a child's call to CONAD, and Colonel Harry Shoup, Director of Operations , assured the caller while staff checked radar.
- Satellite sensors and radar in the North Warning System provide the detection NORAD relies on, using 47 installations across northern Canada and Alaska plus specialist defense satellites.
- This year, the program offers expanded web calling and automated updates running until 3 a.m. December 25, with live operators available from 6 a.m. to midnight MST on Dec. 24.
- With a 41-million mile itinerary and fresh web-based calling and translation tools, NORAD is broadening who can follow Santa's journey, noting his first stop is the Republic of Kiribati visiting 390,000 homes per minute.
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GantNews.comNORAD tracking Santa’s flight for 70th anniversary year
Rudolph and his friends once again have been cleared for takeoff tonight as Santa Claus will cross state lines, as well as international borders, performing his annual task of delivering
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How NORAD Accidentally Created Its Annual Santa Tracker
Every year on Christmas Eve, the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s (NORAD) mission shifts from “blow s—t up” to “glow s—t up” with its traditional Santa tracker. As eager children sit awake on Christmas Eve, they want to know how close Santa is to dropping off presents at their houses. NORAD pulls through every year, and they have for the past 70 years. Funny to think that NORAD’s Santa tracking tradition began as a fluke, an accident, …
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