K06TX021600)[1] was a Cold War radar station of the United States Air Force in Texas.
)[6] After a January 1959 plan included the "ARDC Laredo test site radars" as sensors for the "interim National Space Surveillance and Control Center",[7] in 1960 the "Laredo test site assumed the function of tracking artificial satellites and reporting the data to Project "Harvest Moon".
[3] In July 1961 Air Defense Command acquired the site[1] and by the end of 1961, the station had been developed with structures like ADC Permanent System radar stations[8] (numerous planned Aircraft Control and Warning radars for NORAD monitoring over Mexico were cancelled.)
The Laredo Sensor Site was the station's name by August 30, 1961;[9] and operations included projecting "an enlarged image of radar scope film [onto] a finely graduated scale on [a] screen" for tracking precision.
[2] The AN/FSS-7 mission of detecting SLBM[12] launches/Space Surveillance and Satellite Tracking from Texas was taken over by a PAVE PAWS at Eldorado Air Force Station in 1987.