Northern America Aerospace Defense Headquarters opens a website that tracks Santa on radar and satellite / jet fighting aircraft, the history of the project and lots of information on Santa

North America Aerospace Defense Command(Hereinafter NORAD) is carrying out an important mission of confirming whether Santa's journey through the world is safe every December every year. NORAD's Santa tracking mission is starting from 1955, and since then children have tracked Santa's route with NORAD's radar, satellites, jet fighters and so on.

NORAD Tracks Santa project goes 3D, touch-device optimized with some help from Microsoft - The Fire Hose - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
http://blogs.technet.com/b/firehose/archive/2013/12/03/norad-tracks-santa-project-goes-3d-touch-device-optimized-with-some-help-from-microsoft.aspx


NORAD came to follow Santa is due to a mistake call that took over 50 years ago. In 1955Sears Roebuck AGWhen I opened a "Santa direct phone" for children, I mistookly printed the Director's number for the commander of the Mainland Air Defense Army (CONAD) in the advertisement, but Harry who was Commander Commander of the time at that time · Colonel Shaupu checked with the radar for the evidence that Santa was heading south from the North Pole and subsequently informed Santa's current location to the children who called this phone number, A strange tradition of "CONAD keeps track of Santa" was born. After that, in 1958, NORAD protecting the skies of America and Canada was born, and now NORAD is taking over the task of tracking Santa.

Such Santa pursuit of such NORAD knows what kind of thing is looking at this picture.

NORAD Tracks Santa Command Video 2013 - YouTube


Santa pursuit in 2013 will be done on the following website. This website is a site for tracking Santa, created by NORAD with the help of Microsoft, to enable a magical experience like never before.

Official NORAD Santa Tracker
http://www.noradsanta.org/


By clicking "English" in the upper left part of the site, you can change the display language of the site and display in Japanese is also possible.


Since it is possible to display Japanese, it is becoming a site that children can play. It is Christmas Eve on December 24th that actually traces Santa's destination, but until then it can enjoy content such as games, music, movies, etc. in a site designed as a clay animation style .


This is a village of Santa Claus.


You can play games in the village of Santa Claus, games are added one day a day until Christmas Eve. Among the following images, it is the game that you can play the article writing that is unlocked.


"Music stage" where Santa's favorite Christmas song can be heard ... ...


There are also libraries to learn about Santa.


This time it was not the first time that Microsoft helped NORAD track Santa, but in 2012 we are offering Bing's map so that you can keep track of where Santa is while staying home. And in the project of 2013, the Internet Explorer (IE) team blended the latest web technology and Santa's appeal and created a wonderful tracking site. On December 24th, the position of Santa is displayed on the touchable 3D earth screen, rotate the earth with a swipe operation using a browser such as IE 11, zoom in with the pinch operation to find where Santa It is possible to locate in detail whether it is. It seems that Bing's map is used when showing Santa's detailed position with this operation. "Everyone at the IE team and Microsoft centered around NORAD's Santa tracking and brought in a new web experience there," says Stacey Knott, manager of Santa tracking program at NORAD.

On December 24, many people call NORAD's headquarters directly to know the situation of Santa, so the site also embeds a link that allows you to call the HQ using Skype with one click It is. If you actually make a phone call, anytime anyone seems to be able to let you know Santa's situation from NORAD's Santa Tracking Headquarters.


In addition, there is also an application that makes Santa tracking on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Phone easier, and in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 applications it will be possible to trace Santa from the start screen live tile.

NORAD Santa | Windows Phone Apps + Games Store (United States)
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/norad-santa/d005fda7-d20a-4a41-acdd-16d1ecab38e2


NORAD Tracks Santa app for Windows in the Windows Store
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/norad-tracks-santa/445e2479-6da9-41e2-85f7-66550fe8c55b


Of course there are also applications for iOS and Android, so Santa can track anywhere, anywhere on a PC or a smartphone.


NORAD Tracks Santa on the App Store on iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/norad-tracks-santa/id474927766


NORAD Tracks Santa - Android application on Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.visionbox.NoradTracksSanta


According to the NORAD report in the site, Santa's time experience is reported to be different from humans. Normally Christmas Eve is 24 hours, but it is speculated that Santa deserves a few days, weeks, or months, so Santa is active in a space-time continuum that is different from humans It seems that it is the only reasonable conclusion to think that you are doing.