Astroblog: Happy Birthday Tidbinbilla

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Happy Birthday Tidbinbilla

(Image credit NASA) The crew of the International Space Station sent special greetings last Sunday to NASA's Tidbinbilla Deep Space Communication Complex near Canberra to mark its 40th birthday. The dishes just outside of Canberra have been monitoring spacecraft for NASA since 1965. They include the largest stearable dish in the Southern Hemisphere (which can survive 160 km/he winds) and still give a daily call to the voyager craft. See this ABC story for more details, and the offical NASA site for its history (and that of the whole Deep Space Network). Any old bits of the Tidbindilla complex wind up your way Stuart?

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 10:41 pm

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Not that I know of. I will post something about the dishes from Woomera shortly though.

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Anonymous : 1:36 am

I should have added "happy birthday" too.

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Anonymous : 6:06 am

M'colleague woowoowoo (also known as Andrew) has been Google Sightseeing: the NASA satellite earth station in Carnarvon, WA; the Tidbinbilla dish; and Lucas Heights are all available in high-res.

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