Post 1945, Western Australia, Space Communications, Australian Satelite Comminications Station, Kojarena
The Australian Defence Satellite Communications Ground Station is located at Kojarena, 30 km east of Geraldton in Western Australia. In 2024 the Station hosts three distinct facilities in five separate sectors. One is an Australian intelligence facility intercepting communications downlinked from communications satellites in geostationary orbit above the equator operated by other countries.
The name ‘Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station’ originally applied only to that facility, but now applies to all three facilities. The US-built MUOS military mobile phone Radio Access Facility and the Wide Band Global SATCOM (WGS) military communications are located adjacent to the north side of the ADSCS central sector, together with a smaller Australian-built ADF Satellite Ground Station.
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Two adjacent facilities built in recent years by the United States provide access to satellite communications for US forces worldwide, and to which Australia has been given access by the US. A smaller fourth facility is operated by ADF to provide secure ADF connections to part of the US satellite communications system, and to Australian-owned satellites utilised by the Australian Defence Force.
"Comms Chat" is a changing, low tech, analogue, non AI generated, printed ink exhibit adjacent to and supporting the Communications Gallery at the Australian Army Museum of Western Australia. It contains personal stories, technology insights and anything remotely connected to the theme of Communication. This sub collection contains elements which have previously appeared within Comms Chat.
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