Satellite relay station

The  is a large building inhabited by Enclave and robots, reached through the Rockland Car Tunnel. It has 1 interior section.

Background
The Enclave use the Satellite Station to aim their orbital bombardments.

Exterior
The exterior is a small valley stretching from north to south. The collapsed end of Rockland Car Tunnel and the door through which the area is accessed is at the southern end while the Satellity Relay Station itself and another collapsed car tunnel are at the northern one. The valley itself is split into an elevated road on the eastern side and a wider grass area to the west. The road is initially blocked by Enclave forcefields and the whole area is fortified with Automated Turrets. A multitude of Enclave Soldiers protects the area.

Satellite Facility
The facility itself is a fairly extensive, yet linear building spanning across multiple floors and guarded by 32 Enclave Soldiers in total. The first room encountered when entering the facility itself is filled with rubble. The only way further inside the building is a small service tunnel with a small locker room on the side which ends in a room with generators, computers and a metal staircase leading upwards. While the intermediary level holds nothing of interest, the topmost level has room with tables and more computers on the one side and a small corridor on the other. After passing by yet another computer room, the corridor ends in another staircase, this time leading downwards. At the bottom level, there is a storage room or lounge connected to another service tunnel. Featuring a lot of crates and a barricade, the tunnel opens out into room with pipes on its floor. Yet another metal staircase leads to a room with microfiche readers and more computers with a small bathroom on the side. A large door at the end reveals the next service tunnel which is fairly shortly and ends in a computer room with a Satellite Uplink Terminal. Stairs guarded by an automated turret lead to the building's other exit to the Capital Wasteland, up a cliff north of Rockland Car Tunnel.

Notable loot

 * There is a beta version of the Tesla Cannon in the form of a Missile Launcher outside the complex. The gun was cut from the final game, but can be reached via a glitch or console commands.

Related quests

 * Death From Above

Hints
When fighting the Enclave in the satellite relay station, the best equipment to use is:

Gatling Laser

Harkness's Plasma Rifle (depending on if you completed the side quest in the main game)

Eugene (Provided you completed the side quest Rielly's Rangers)

Enclave Hellfire Armour & Helmet

Brotherhood of Steel Prototype Medic Armour

Also put Stimpacks on the quick equip menu. The appears only in the Fallout 3 add-on Broken Steel.

Stock-up on:

Microfusion Cells

5mm Rounds

Electron charge packs

Stimpacks

Aqua Pura

Only take the essentials don't overload yourself with too much equipment.

Bugs

 * Depending on your choice at the end of Broken Steel, when you return here you find that Liberty Prime's head is still here, but also at the Citadel.
 * If you return here during Who Dares Wins, the goal marker on the HUD will point to the tunnel. On the map, the tunnel will just be a point on the path to the goal. The path will extend from you, to the tunnel, to far off the southwestern corner of the map (not just off the area's map bounda. It will then return to the map from somewhere to the south and head to a point almost on the path leading from the tunnel. Finally, from there it will lead to a goal marker right by the southern most satellite dish. Apparently the Mobile Base Crawler can tunnel underground wherever it wants to.
 * It appears that the first point from the player may actually appear at any location on the map instead of just the tunnel, such as the entrance to the facility. The goal marker on the HUD will always point to the location of the first point.