NORAD Santa tracking systems to eventually track real things
Command critical to national survival requests patience
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NORAD, long focused on Father Christmas, now turns toward national survival
PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, COLORADO—It was a tense week for North American Aerospace Defense Command, starting with an American fighter jet shooting down a Chinese surveillance balloon after it floated across wide swathes of North America, and ending with a flurry of additional e…
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