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- NASA Carnarvon Tracking Station (138 bytes)
1: {{SideMenuCRO}}
2: [[Image:CRO-gate.jpg|left|thumb|Station entrance]] - What is Tracking? (1,895 bytes)
3: ...y a lost person stumbling through the bush. For a CRO Tracker it meant being able to find and follow a ... - Support highlights (7,807 bytes)
8: ...rt by tracking staff. Here are some highlights of CRO GRARR support.
11: ...rtion into orbit around the Moon – years before CRO USB became prime for Apollo trans-lunarnsertion. ...
15: ... was a logical extension of the HAD program which CRO had supported in 1964. Q6 confirmed that a good o...
19: ...igh orbit for handover simulations; nevertheless, CRO GRARR tracked five sets of two or three orbits in...
21: ...extremely successful” combined operation of the CRO MSFN and GRARR systems, controlled in real-time b... - Goddard Range and Range Rate (2,846 bytes)
15: ...asingly integrated into the general operations of CRO. A coaxial cable was installed between the T&C an...
17: ...ocal partnership became increasingly formal until CRO was closed in early 1975 as a further economy mea... - FPQ-6 Radar (3,782 bytes)
16: ...etwork, particularly Bermuda (BDA) and Carnarvon (CRO), was the way they interacted with each other. Th... - Solar Telescopes (2,779 bytes)
7: ...cessary to cope with backlash as the complex mass crossed the balance point; this changed daily with th...
14: ...ical staff) interpreted the solar observations at CRO and made twice-daily reports to Mission Control, ... - Jupiter Monitor (2,950 bytes)
11: ...er ends of the Selsyn links, [with] … lots of micro switches … [and looking] like something made by...
13: ...d-to-end, and reinstalled to run ‘backwards’. CRO then swapped ‘direction’ connections on the s... - The Science of Tracking (14,603 bytes)
13: ...night sky to determine if selected stars pass the cross hairs of the telescope at precisely the predict...
22: ..., and relative-phase. All six tracking systems at CRO utilized two or more of them.
63: ...ree MSFN USB tracking stations such as Carnarvon (CRO), Honeysuckle Creek (HSK) and Hawaii (HAW). In th...
70: ... from a number of long base-line stations. But at CRO it was used as a monopulse technique where every ... - Western Australia in Space (7,188 bytes)
61: ...resent'''; at Lower Chittering, near Perth. An ex-CRO UHF Troposcatter Communications 10-m dish has bee... - VERLORT Radar (1,971 bytes)
8: [[Image:cro-verlort.jpg|left|thumbnail|180px|The VERLORT rada... - Why in Western Australia? (6,217 bytes)
10: ...ld be the first landfall for the spacecraft after crossing the Atlantic Ocean, ‘darkest’ Africa and...
17: [[Image:cro or muc.jpg|right|thumbnail|230px|Carnarvon has a ... - Roles of NASA and OTC stations (6,605 bytes)
4: ...ation''' are often confused to the extent that '''CRO''''s vital role for the Apollo missions is often ...
6: ... a replacement for the Muchea (Perth) station. '''CRO''' was surveyed 1962, constructed in ’63 at the...
8: ; '''2. CRO – principal role''' : to provide critical suppo...
10: ; '''3. CRO - other roles''' : (1) The '''Satellite and Track...
12: ...ations''' : At first only marginally reliable, '''CRO''' nearly missed its first mission (April’64) d... - Staff List (1,165 bytes)
4: [[Image:CRO pass.jpg|left|thumbnail|300px|<big>'''Do you stil... - Administration (1,419 bytes)
5: <BR>[[Image:CRO pass.jpg|left|thumbnail|300px|<big>'''Do you stil... - Key FPQ-6 Mission Activity (12,881 bytes)
7: ...s the first object in space tracked by Carnarvon (CRO). It was followed later that year by '''Syncom-3'...
8: ...llowed on 11 January 1967 to become Pacific-1 – CRO’s communications satellite link to the US. '''I...
9: ...fter was discovered in a lower Earth orbit by the CRO FPQ-6; an orbit from which it could not be rescue...
10: ..., failed to reach the correct orbit; nevertheless CRO FPQ-6, acquiring it a little behind schedule, was...
11: ...launched. About 50 of these had been supported by CRO FPQ-6 before it ceased tracking in mid-1975. - Bermuda,Carnarvon and RCA: Q6 partners (3,596 bytes)
5: ... particularly close too; whereas other systems at CRO could seek help from a dozen or so other tracking...
7: ...ay operation of the radar. I must say that we, at CRO, and our colleagues at BDA seemed to enjoy a spec...
9: ...nd pretend they don’t exist.”'' Lindsay Sage, CRO Chief Engineer, came along and turned the myth on...
11: Activities such as these developed the skills of CRO FPQ-6 technicians so that they were able to chang... - WRE HAD Rocket Experiments (7,587 bytes)
11: ...and provide pointing data for FPQ-6. The launcher-CRO interface was tested with a few trial firings - a...
21: ...opulation watched these activities with interest, crowded into the racecourse grandstand which was conv...
29: ...tion of cliffs near Quobba Station, 60Km north of CRO. The public was invited to view the next launch s...
38: ...for Supply, press release, September, 1964. Note: CRO was the only other place in Australia with radar ...
42: [5] Morton, P., Fire Across the Desert; Woomera and the Anglo-Australian Jo... - RCA Computer (7,242 bytes)
28: ... The program, written in advance, was debugged at CRO. Dick and Trevor Housley went to Salisbury to com...
30: ...data was used to develop orbital parameters for a CRO track half an orbit later. [4]
32: ...r satellites in the OV series. This resulted from CRO's support of the polar-orbiting '''Cannonball-2''...
40: ...store’, and ‘add’ instruction time of 5 microseconds – excellent at the time but still only w...
42: ...the station’s 26-page report; they endorsed the CRO findings -a final acknowledgement of local progra... - Memories of the 4101 (4,531 bytes)
7: ...ncreased to 8K, possibly prior to installation at CRO. The original clock rate was 1 MHz later increase...
29: ...tion some logistics support was provided from the CRO Q-6 basement "come in handy” cupboard. This was... - Other Q-6 tales (5,479 bytes)
21: ''Len Algate arrived back at CRO as the Chief Engineer and, of course, was touring...
42: ...eupon the star appeared bang in the centre of the cross-hairs on the TV monitor...''
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