Cooby Creek Tracking Station.

View from the main gate.
Department of Supply photo, scan: Nevil Eyre.

In this section

Introduction to Cooby Creek

Site surveys and early visits – page just started

ATS Program Summary. – new

Technical Description

The Operation and Maintenance of Cooby Creek A.T.S. Ground Station – by David Hancock

Installation photos from David Hancock

Installation photos from Neil Sandford

Opening Day – 22nd October 1966 – updated

Cooby Creek booklet

Key achievements: – pages updated
• Television experiments through ATS-1.
• ATS-2 pictures – story by Pat Hetherman – new
• Expo '67 from Montreal.
• Our World – first global television programme.
• Prime Minister Holt’s Memorial Service – 22 December 1967.
• Assisting in the rescue of the Nella Dan –coming soon.

Photos

Australian Extended Operation, 1970

End of an Era

Photos of the Teardown

Cooby people

Neil Sandford speaks about Cooby

Darcey, The King of Cooby

Cooby Creek today

Where the Cooby antenna is today (coming soon)