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NASA upgrades Rosetta, Voyager and moon landing tracker
NASA has upgraded the Australian facility housing antennae that captured signals from the first Moon landing and still helps to track the Voyager missions. The Tidbinbilla Deep Space Tracking Station already houses Deep Space Stations (DSS) 34, 43, 45 and DSS 46. The latter is a 26 metre antenna that received the first video …
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Tuesday 3rd March 2015 12:53 GMT Simon Harris
CSIRO have a nice article about what actually happened here - it focuses on Parkes, but includes some information about Honeysuckle Creek too:
http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/
Honeysuckle Creek's images were the first to be used, but the feed was switched over to use Parkes' output after a few minutes as the image quality from there was better.
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