Carnarvon's NASA Dish Receives First Signal in Nearly 40 Years
2025-01-14
A 29-meter-wide satellite dish in Carnarvon, Australia, once used by NASA, has received its first signal in almost 40 years. After a 20-year lease by Canadian aerospace company ThothX and extensive refurbishment, including cleaning decades of pigeon droppings and manually rotating the massive dish, the team successfully received a signal. The dish will now be used to track orbital traffic and "adversary" spacecraft, becoming a key component of ThothX's global satellite tracking network.