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Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station

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Honeysuckle Creek tracking station was a NASA Earth station in Australia near Canberra, which played an important role in supporting Project Apollo. [1]

20 relations: Apollo 11, Apollo 11 missing tapes, Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, Apollo program, Astronaut, Canberra, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, Carnarvon Tracking Station, Centre points of Australia, CSIRO, History of the Deep Space Network, List of earth stations in Australia, Moon, NASA, NASA Deep Space Network, Orroral Valley Tracking Station, OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon, Parkes Observatory, Skylab, The Dish.

Apollo 11

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon.

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Apollo 11 missing tapes

The Apollo 11 missing tapes were those that were recorded from Apollo 11's slow-scan television (SSTV) telecast in its raw format on telemetry data tape at the time of the first moon landing in 1969 and subsequently lost.

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Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package

The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) comprised a set of scientific instruments placed by the astronauts at the landing site of each of the five Apollo missions to land on the Moon following Apollo 11 (Apollos 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17).

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Apollo program

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.

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Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex

The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) is an Earth station in Australia located at Tidbinbilla in the Australian Capital Territory.

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Carnarvon Tracking Station

The Carnarvon Tracking Station in Western Australia was an Earth tracking station in Australia, located 10 kilometres south of Carnarvon, 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.

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Centre points of Australia

Centre points of Australia are those geographical locations that have been considered to be centre of Australia, as distinct from the extreme points of Australia.

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CSIRO

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an independent Australian federal government agency responsible for scientific research.

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History of the Deep Space Network

The forerunner of the DSN was established in January 1958, when JPL, then under contract to the U.S. Army, deployed portable radio tracking stations in Nigeria, Singapore, and California to receive telemetry and plot the orbit of the Army-launched Explorer 1, the first successful U.S. satellite.

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List of earth stations in Australia

Earth stations in Australia or Ground stations in Australia are a number of historic and current Earth (or ground) stations in Australia used to communicate and track human-made satellites.

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Moon

The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth and is Earth's only permanent natural satellite.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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NASA Deep Space Network

The NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) is a worldwide network of US spacecraft communication facilities, located in the United States (California), Spain (Madrid), and Australia (Canberra), that supports NASA's interplanetary spacecraft missions.

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Orroral Valley Tracking Station

The Orroral Valley tracking station, an Earth station in Australia, supported Earth-orbiting satellites, as part of NASA's Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN).

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OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon

The OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon, an Earth station in Australia was established to meet the need for more reliable and higher quality communications for NASA's Apollo Moon project.

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Parkes Observatory

The Parkes Observatory (also known informally as "The Dish") is a radio telescope observatory, located 20 kilometres north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia.

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Skylab

Skylab was the United States' space station that orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention.

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The Dish

The Dish is a 2000 Australian film that tells a somewhat fictionalised story of the Parkes Observatory's role in relaying live television of man's first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeysuckle_Creek_Tracking_Station

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