Department of Defense photo by Thomas Paul
NORAD staff busy tracking Santa last year.
Christmas Eve is just three weeks away, and the North American Aerospace Defense Command is ready to track Santa on Dec. 24 and is celebrating the program’s 70th anniversary.
NORAD monitors and defends North American airspace 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. On Dec. 24, NORAD has one additional mission: Tracking Santa Claus as he makes his way across the globe, delivering presents to children.
The NORAD Tracks Santa website (www.noradsanta.org) launched on Monday. It features Santa’s North Pole Village, which includes a holiday countdown, games, movie theater, holiday music, web store and more. The website is available in nine languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese and Korean.
The official NORAD Tracks Santa app is also in the Apple App and Google Play stores to countdown the days until Santa’s journey on mobile devices. NORAD Tracks Santa will also be available on digital media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and X, and on contracture platforms Amazon Alexa, SiriusXM and OnStar. More information about contributors is available on the website.
On Dec. 24, trackers worldwide can call 1-877-HI-NORAD (1-877-446-6723) to ask live operators about Santa’s location from 4 a.m. to midnight MST. Additionally, NORAD is introducing a web-based calling option so children without the means to reach NORAD via a phone number can call the NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center directly from the noradsanta.org website.
Virtual translation services will also be able to support more than 200 languages via the NORAD call center. While live operators will be unavailable after midnight MST, trackers can continue to follow Santa’s flight until 3 a.m. on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, by calling and listening to an Interactive Voice Response system or visiting the website.
NORAD Tracks Santa is a global experience, and the U.S. and Canadian personnel of NORAD are proud to continue the tradition of delighting families everywhere. NORAD contributors help make this possible:
· Space Base Delta 1
· Acuity Scheduling
· Alaskan NORAD Region
· Alpha-Lit Colorado Springs
· Agingo
· Amazon Alexa
· Amazon Web Services
· Ansys
· The Arc Pikes Peak Region
· Avaya
· Balsam Hill
· Barcana
· Canadian NORAD Region
· Canadian Forces Museum of Aerospace Defence
· CenturyLink
· Cesium
· Christmas in the Park
· Christmas This Year
· Colorado Springs Chamber & Economic Development Corporation
· Continental U.S. NORAD Region
· CradlePoint
· Defense Visual Information Distribution Service
· The Elf on the Shelf
· Haus of Holiday
· The Hotel Polaris
· HP
· Historic Arkansas Riverwalk of Pueblo
· IU Globelink
· M&B Creations
· Marine Toys for Tots Foundation
· Meshbox
· Microsoft
· Microsoft Azure
· Microsoft Bing
· Naden Band of Maritime Forces Pacific
· NASA Space Place
· Nashville.Net User Group
· Navy Marine Corps Public Health Center
· OnStar
· OpenAI
· Package From Santa
· Pikes Peak Military Affairs Council
· PR Karma
· Print Shop Guy
· Portable North Pole
· Royal Canadian Air Force Band
· SavATree Colorado Springs
· SciJinks
· Shirt Stop
· SiriusXM
· Six String Soldiers
· Snowy the Mouse
· Space Foundation
· Together We Stand Foundation
· Twilio
· U.S. Air Force Band
· U.S. Air Force Academy Band
· U.S. Air Force Heartland of America Band
· U.S. Coast Guard Band
· U.S. Department of State Family Liaison Office
· U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
· U.S. Navy Band Northeast
· U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee
· Verizon
· Veteran’s United
· Zebra Productions
NORAD is a United States and Canada bi-national organization charged with the missions of aerospace warning, aerospace control and maritime warning for North America. NORAD prevents air attacks against North America, safeguarding the sovereign airspaces of the United States and Canada by responding to unknown, unwanted and unauthorized air activity approaching and operating within these airspaces.
