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Galaxiki Community BlogSubscribe via RSS The Canberra Deep Space Communication ComplexMarch 12, 2008by joskirps The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex is an observatory located about half an hour from the Australian Capital Canberra.  It was officially opened on 19 March 1965 and it's part of the Deep Space Network run by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - in fact it can be considered to be the most important NASA supported observatory in Australia. Its location behind the Coolamon Ridge and Urambi Hills help to shield the city's radio frequency (RF) noise from the dishes.During the Apollo program the Complex was used for tracking the Apollo Lunar Module, while other australian observatories part of the project were involved in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975 and communicated with the both the Apollo Command modules and later on with Skylab. There are currently four large antennas in use at the CDSCC which is still communicating with various spacecraft - including the largest steerable parabolic antenna in the Southern Hemisphere, a 70 m dish constructed in 1976 and extended in 1987.
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