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OTC Earth Station - WA

Historic Site

Position

DEG: -24.868498 113.70475

DMS: 24º 52' 6.59" S 113º 42' 17.1" E

UTM: 49 J 7246899mN 773291mE

Altitude: 30.45m

Address & Contact

25 Mahony Ave
Brown Range WA 6701

Phone: +618 9941 9901

Email: frontdesk@carnarvonmuseum.org.au

Web: https://www.carnarvonmuseum.org.au/about

Information

The OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon was established to meet the need for more reliable and higher quality communications for NASA's Apollo Moon project. NASA contracted Australia's Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC) "to provide an earth station near Carnarvon, Western Australia to link the NASA tracking station in that area to the control centre in the USA",[1] also contracting the COMSAT Corporation to launch three Intelsat-2 communications satellites.

The Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum celebrates the little known history of the role Carnarvon played in the manned space program and in the Australian communications industry.

The museum focusses on two parts. The Carnarvon Tracking Station and the OTC Satellite Earth Station, for which each station played separate roles in the early space industry.

Open: April – September 9am – 4pm. October – March 10am – 2pm. Open 7 days (except Christmas Day).

PlaceID	102487

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Weather

Closest Weather Station

Carnarvon at 13/12:30am WST

Distance from OTC Earth Station 4.11km SW

Temperature	Feels Like	Rel. Humidity	Dew Point	Pressure	Rainfall	Wind Direction	Wind Speed	Gusts
25.5°C	26.0°C	84%	22.6°C	1006.3hPa	0.0mm	S	24km/hr 13knots	30km/hr 16knots

Closest Climatic Station

Carnarvon Airport

Distance from OTC Earth Station 4.11km SW

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean Max. °C	31.3	32.5	31.6	29.1	26.2	23.4	22.3	23.0	24.4	26.0	27.6	29.3
Mean Min. °C	22.5	23.4	22.1	19.1	14.9	12.3	10.9	11.6	13.8	16.4	18.6	20.6
Mean Rain mm	12.3	20.6	16.2	13.9	34.9	47.3	45.3	18.0	5.6	5.3	4.1	5.7