Sailors from U.S. Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia show their support for the Navy team by writing ‘Go Navy Beat Army’ with huge letters in the sand.
The small team with 22nd Space Operations Squadron satellite control ground station in Diego Garcia, also known as “REEF”, has an important role to play in the Artemis II launch. The station acts as a crucial link in a global chain of satellite tracking stations, bridging a large communications gap over the Indian Ocean. Artemis II is NASA’s first crewed mission under the Artemis program and the first mission with astronauts aboard the...