It functioned first during the early 'Project Mercury' launches when Astronauts were just shot into space in a parabolic arc from Florida to the other side of Africa. It also lay along the "Earth track" of most of the later Orbital missions and thus was a vital part of the tracking and telemetry net that helped communicate with these space craft.
Kituo hichi kilitumika kwa mara ya mwanzo wakati mradi wa mwanzo wa kwenda kwenye Sayari na "Mercury" ulipoanzishwa wakati wanaanga waliporuka katika Parabola yao kutoka Florida kwenda upande mwingine wa Afrika. Kituo hiki vile vile kipo mlalo wa njia ya dunia " Earth track" ya misheni za baadae za mzunguko kwenda kwenye Sayari na kwa hivyo kilikuwa kituo muhimu cha kunasia na pia cha upimaji na upitishaji wa data ambacho kilisaidia kuwasiliana na vyombo hivi vya Angani.