Why Does The USA Have A Space Base At The North Pole?
A look at America’s northernmost military installation
The United States’s northernmost military installation is Pituffik Space Base. Pituffik Space Base is located in Greenland thanks to a mutual defense treaty with the Kingdom of Denmark (a fellow NATO ally.) The installation is located 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle in a coastal valley north of Baffin Bay. The base’s motto is “The Top of the World.” In fact, the base is located just a few hundred miles south of the actual North Pole in one of the northernmost solid pieces of land on the planet (as the North Pole is actually in the middle of the Arctic Ocean.) All of this makes Pituffik Space Base one of the most remote military installations in the world. So why is it there? What exactly goes on at Pituffik Space Base?
What Does The Space Base Do?
The primary purpose of Pituffik Space Base is reconnaissance and tracking. Pituffik Space Base used to be known as Thule Air Base before the creation of Space Force under former President Trump. The installation is home to a wide array of high-tech tracking technology aimed at…
