Carnarvon Tracking Station, Western Australia


 

In this section

Introduction to Carnarvon

Carnarvon maps and booklet

The 9 metre USB Apollo antenna

The FPQ-6 skin tracking radar

Photos by Alan Gilham

Photos by John Fletcher

Photos by John Sharples new

CRO People

Stories

More photos

b&w photos

More photos from John Lambie

Press clippings

Last days


Carnarvon Tracking Station was the largest manned space flight tracking station outside the US. It should not be confused with the nearby OTC Carnarvon Earth Station which was built primarily to carry comms from the NASA station to the US.

(See also the “Downunder Comes up Live” TV segment in the above OTC Earth Station section. The TV broadcast included people from the NASA station.)


Entry to Carnarvon Tracking Station

The entrance to the NASA Carnarvon Tracking Station, in 1971.

Photo: Tom Sheehan.
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If you worked at Carnarvon and would like to contribute photos, information or stories,
I would be delighted to add them to this section. (Send me an e-mail.)

For more on Carnarvon Tracking Station, also see –

CROTrack – by Terry Kierans.

Carnarvonspace.com – by Paul Dench & Alison Gregg.
(Dedicated to Carnarvon MSFN and also Carnarvon OTC.)