Weapons Research Establishment, Australian Department of Supply
Site history
In use
March 1961 – February 1964
Muchea Tracking Station was an Earth station in Australia located close to Muchea in the
Shire of Chittering, about 60 km (37 mi) north of Perth, Western Australia, built specifically for NASA's Project Mercury.
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MucheaTrackingStation was an Earth station in Australia located close to Muchea in the Shire of Chittering, about 60 km (37 mi) north of Perth, Western...
replaced the Muchea TrackingStation and used some of the equipment from Project Mercury. The station also included an FPQ-6 precision tracking radar, a Spacecraft...
number of historic and current Earth (or ground) stations in Australia are used to communicate and track human-made satellites. Many of the sites are associated...
December 1972. Subsequent tracking stations built by NASA in Australia were: Carnarvon, Western Australia Muchea, Western Australia Cooby Creek, Queensland...
Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) for tracking satellites in low Earth orbit, and the Deep Space Network (DSN) for tracking more distant...
North West Coastal Highway provide an alternative coastal route between Muchea and Port Hedland, while Victoria Highway carries the National Highway route...
overseas Mercury trackingstations. Construction was proceeding on schedule at Cape Canaveral, Bermuda, Grand Canary Island, the Woomera and Muchea Australian...
as the result of altered working of engines through from Avon Yard. The station ceased to be served by scheduled passenger trains from 1978. The number...
locality of Midland. Longer, near-continuous paths exist from Perth to Muchea in the north (along Tonkin Highway) and to Mandurah/South Yunderup in the...
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