Orroral Valley was a NASA tracking station in the STADAN network, designed for telemetry, tracking and command, from 1965-1985. Orroral veteran Philip Clark has put together this short film of original footage. You can see the fabulous SATAN antenna, the operations room, and the whole tracking station under snow (it's in the Australian Alps). There's also the Wresat 1 satellite, which was sent to Orroral prior to launch at Woomera to check that all the systems would work. And - guess what - there's a rocket cake! Well, a space shuttle cake to be precise.
In 2003 I began work on a research project that has taken me to places that I never imagined: the cultural heritage of space exploration. Now I am determined to bring to light the secrets at the heart of the Space Age. | This site does not use AI/LLM tools to create articles or art. I do not support the use of AI.
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