Catch Santa if you can
The North Warning System, a network of 47 radars, placed at the continent's northernmost frontier, makes NORAD aware of when St Nick takes off from the North Pole. NORAD has been expanding and updating the programme continuously.
The joint American-Canadian air command has been safeguarding the continent against aerial attack since the last fifty years. Using its sophisticated tracking technology, it easily follows Kris Kringle’s journey and updates on his location to children worldwide.
According to Wired Blog Network, the North American Aerospace Defense Command provided them a rundown of how it executes its job.
The North Warning System, a network of 47 radars, placed at the continent’s northernmost frontier, makes NORAD aware of when St. Nick takes off from the North Pole. While speaking to the media, Navy Lt Desmond James said, “The satellites actually pick up an infrared signature from Rudolph’s nose.”
Once Santa touches the ground, a network of surveillance cameras known as ’Santa Cam’ transmit images of St Nick making deliveries. There are four C-18 fighter jets, who escort Santa through Canada before they hand him over to F-16s as the sleigh enters American airspace. Capt Matthew Maurice, of the Canadian Air Force, is among the pilots who was assigned to execute the task.
In 1955, tracking Kris Kringle became a part of the mission of NORAD. At that time the organisation was known as the Continental Air Defense Command. Col Harry Shoup was the man in charge. Though Sears-Roebuck gave an advertisement in the local paper along with the phone number of Santa, the number was misprinted.
NORAD has been expanding and updating the programme continuously. The updates are done in seven languages. Nowadays, the Google software provides images from the Santa Cams; Google Maps and Google Earth track his trajectory very easily.
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