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- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station abstract "The Carnarvon Tracking Station in Western Australia was a tracking station built in 1963 for use by NASA for the Gemini program, the second step for NASA's plan to put a human on the Moon. It replaced the Muchea Tracking Station and used some of the equipment from Project Mercury.The Station also included an FPQ-6 precision tracking radar, a STADAN scientific satellite tracking facility, a planet Jupiter monitoring system, and a Solar Particle Alert Network (SPAN) facility. Together these facilities formed the largest station in the NASA network outside mainland USA.After the conclusion of the Gemini program, Carnarvon Tracking Station provided extensive support for the Project Apollo missions to the Moon. By reason of Carnarvon's unique geographical position it was used to uplink the Trans-lunar injection (TLI) command to the Apollo spacecraft and was prime for the last hours of re-entry to Earth.To enhance critical communications between the station and the Houston Control Centre, NASA funded the nearby OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon in 1966.After Project Apollo finished, the Carnarvon Tracking Station continued with the Skylab project. When Skylab finished the station ceased routine operations immediately after an AE-C pass on Friday, 4 October 1974 but retained sufficient capability for one final mission - the trans-solar insertion of Helios-A on 10 December 1974. The final closure of the gates and exodus of the last five staff members took place on 18 April 1975.The main building was then used by Radio Australia, who were looking for a home after Cyclone Tracy put their Darwin installation out of commission. They closed this facility in June 1996. All Tracking Station equipment was removed and/or buried and all buildings, with the exception of one small one now used by Telstra, were razed. Only the foundations of what is a historical site remain.Solar scientific research, originally carried out at the Carnarvon Tracking Station, is now carried out on the adjacent OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon site, which hosts a node of the Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network.".
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station thumbnail Carnarvon_USB_Antenna.jpg?width=300.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageExternalLink crotrak.com.
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- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageOutDegree "26".
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- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink FPQ-6.
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- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Birmingham_Solar_Oscillations_Network.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Category:Buildings_and_structures_in_Western_Australia.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Category:Earth_stations_in_Australia.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Category:Gascoyne.
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- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Category:Project_Gemini.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Category:Radio_telescopes.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Category:Science_and_technology_in_Western_Australia.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Cyclone_Tracy.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Gemini_program.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Helios_(spacecraft).
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Honeysuckle_Creek_Tracking_Station.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Jupiter.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Muchea_Tracking_Station.
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- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink OTC_Satellite_Earth_Station_Carnarvon.
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- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Project_Gemini.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Project_Mercury.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Skylab.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Spacecraft_Tracking_and_Data_Acquisition_Network.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Trans-lunar_injection.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink Western_Australia.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLink File:Carnarvon_USB_Antenna.jpg.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLinkText "Carnarvon Tracking Station".
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLinkText "Carnarvon".
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLinkText "NASA station".
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLinkText "NASA tracking station".
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLinkText "North Carnarvon".
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wikiPageWikiLinkText "tracking station".
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station hasPhotoCollection Carnarvon_Tracking_Station.
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- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station subject Category:Buildings_and_structures_in_Western_Australia.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station subject Category:Earth_stations_in_Australia.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station subject Category:Gascoyne.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station subject Category:NASA_facilities_in_Australia.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station subject Category:Project_Gemini.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station subject Category:Radio_telescopes.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station subject Category:Science_and_technology_in_Western_Australia.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station hypernym Station.
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- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station type Article.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station type Station.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station type Article.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station type Program.
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- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station type SpatialThing.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station comment "The Carnarvon Tracking Station in Western Australia was a tracking station built in 1963 for use by NASA for the Gemini program, the second step for NASA's plan to put a human on the Moon. It replaced the Muchea Tracking Station and used some of the equipment from Project Mercury.The Station also included an FPQ-6 precision tracking radar, a STADAN scientific satellite tracking facility, a planet Jupiter monitoring system, and a Solar Particle Alert Network (SPAN) facility.".
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station label "Carnarvon Tracking Station".
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- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station lat "-24.904166666666665".
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station long "113.7213888888889".
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station wasDerivedFrom Carnarvon_Tracking_Station?oldid=624530320.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station depiction Carnarvon_USB_Antenna.jpg.
- Carnarvon_Tracking_Station isPrimaryTopicOf Carnarvon_Tracking_Station.