Volunteers answer calls from all over the world at the NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center in Hanger 123 on Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Dec. 24, 2025. NORAD is a binational command that monitors and defends North American aerospace 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year using complementary, multi-domain defense capabilities, including military aircraft, radars, and satellites. The U.S. and Canadian professionals accomplishing this mission daily use these same systems with the additional mission of tracking Santa’s travels on December 24 each year. (Department of War video by Joshua Armstrong)
The North American Aerospace Defense Command is ready to track Santa on Dec. 24 for the program’s 69th year. The NORAD Tracks Santa website (www.noradsanta.org) will launch on Dec. 1. It features Santa’s North Pole Village, which includes a holiday countdown, games, a movie theater, holiday music, web store and more.
PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — The North American Aerospace Defense Command is celebrating the 66th Anniversary of tracking Santa’s yuletide journey around the globe!
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Media in the Colorado Springs, Colo., area are invited to the NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center from 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on December 24, 2019.
