Location: 421 Discovery Drive, Paddy’s River, ACT, Australia.
Country: Ngunnawal, Ngambri
LGA: Australian Capital Territory
Region: Southern Tablelands
Website: http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/
Map: Below.
The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex, also known as the Tidbinbilla Deep Space Tracking Station, is part of NASA’s global Deep Space Network of radio antennas which command, track and monitor interplanetary and Earth-orbit spacecraft. The complex is managed by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) on behalf of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
The Complex’s Visitors Centre is open to the public on weekends.
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Dougherty, Kerrie, and John Sarkissian, 2002, Dishing up the Data: the role of Australian space tracking and radio astronomy facilities in the exploration of the Solar System, in History of Rocketry and Astronautics: The Thirty-Sixth History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics, Houston, Texas.
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