Cooby Creek Tracking Station
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Cooby Creek Tracking Station was located 22.5 km north of Toowoomba, Queensland.
This station was built in 1966 to support NASA's Application Technology Satellite Program, and was a part of the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network.
A 12 m antenna was used to receive and transmit information to satellites, which served as the fore-runners to modern telecommunication satellites.
The station closed in 1970.
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