Carnarvon Tracking Station, Western Australia

 

In this section

Introduction to Carnarvon

The 9 metre USB Apollo antenna

The FPQ-6 skin tracking radar

Photos by Alan Gilham

Alan’s story

more photos
updated

Press clippings

Carnarvon Tracking Station was the largest manned space flight tracking station outside the US and 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 these two new websites –

CROTrack – being developed by Terry Keirans.

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