The Overseas Telecommunications Commission

Carnarvon Satellite Earth Station





To avoid confusion...

The OTC Satellite Earth Station and the NASA Tracking Station at Carnarvon are often confused.

They were two separate installations, at either ends of Brown’s Range (though the OTC station was built at Carnarvon to support communications between the NASA station and the US).

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OTC(A) Carnarvon

Guntis Berzins took this aerial photo from just to the NW of Carnarvon at the end of 1966. It shows the relative positions of the OTC(A) and NASA stations.

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