SATELLITE TRACKER
U.S. Gear For Australia (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, August 20. The United States is this week shipping communications equipment to Australia for a space-tracking station at Carnarvon, 600 miles north of Perth. The gear is designed to keep scientists in touch with manned Gemini and unmanned observation satellites. As Australia is almost at the antipodes of Cape Canaveral, most American spacecraft launched from Florida pass over it on their first orbit. Other gear will enable Carnarvon to track a satellite 32,000 miles away with an accuracy of two yards It will do this with a 29ftdiameter mirror-like antenna which engineers feel confident can be expanded ultimately to track spacecraft in the lunar ranges of 250.000 miles. The project is a joint effort of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Australian Supply Department.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30216, 22 August 1963, Page 6
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