Almost forty years after being decommissioned, a piece of Western Australia’s history is experiencing a revival. Constructed in 1969 to assist a NASA tracking station, the Carnarvon satellite dish has been given a second life by a private aerospace company and has started receiving its first signals from space.

Previously decommissioned NASA satellite dish makes a comeback

Almost forty years after being decommissioned, a piece of Western Australia’s history is experiencing a revival. Constructed in 1969 to assist a NASA tracking station, the Carnarvon satellite dish has been given a second life by a private aerospace company and has started receiving its first signals from space.