Carnarvon's big dish will soon be used as a deep space radar for tracking satellites — decades after it was decommissioned.
abc.net.au/news/carnarvons-historic-nasa-dish-set-for-10m-refurbishment-/101765600A Canadian space company will sink at least $10 million into a historic dish in coastal Western Australia that was once used for NASA missions.Carnarvon's large 29.
The company uses deep space radar technology to track spacecraft in Earth's geostationary orbit, which is located at an altitude of about 35,000 kilometres, and beyond.This means ThothX requires different facilities across the globe to be able to track satellites since, from a ground view, they remain in a fixed position.WatchAn ABC News report from the 1964 showing the inside of the newly established Carnarvon space tracking station.
"Not only are these orbits used by some commercial spacecraft operators for communications, on which we all rely, but these are the orbits that the militaries," she said.
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