Military
Pingarssuit Mountain, commonly called P-Mountain, stands in Greenland near Pituffik Space Base and has long served both geographic and military roles. It remains the site of a United States Space Force installation. During the Cold War, Thule Site N-32 on the mountain housed a US Army Air Defense Command Post for Project Nike, directing four nearby missile sites. The US Air Force also operated a radar there to control local aircraft traffic. In the late 1960s, a satellite communications terminal was installed at the Thule P-Mountain site before being relocated to Thule Site J in 1983.
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Pituffik · Greenland