Cable & Wireless Earth Station
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World / Saint Helena
satellite/space tracking station
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The satellite earth station at Donkey Plain was built by Cable & Wireless and Marconi to provide support for the Apollo moon landings. The station and the early Intelsat satellites were the major communication link between NASA's tracking station at Devil's Ashpit and NASA receivers in the United States.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 7°56'59"S 14°22'41"W
- Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales Earth Station 6.3 km
- Centro de Lançamento da Barreira do Inferno (CLBI) 2308 km
- Satellite Ground Station 3385 km
- Inmarsat Land Earth Station, Tangua 3455 km
- TIBA 5380 km
- Satellite Antenna 5523 km
- Earth Satellite Station Stanley 6275 km
- E.S.R.O. Satellite Tracking Station (Site) 6277 km
- Lady Hill 0.9 km
- Traveller's Hill 0.9 km
- One Boat Golf Club 2.4 km
- Ascension Island 2.4 km
- RAF Ascension Island 2.8 km
- US Air Force Eastern Test Range, Ascension Island 3.3 km
- Green Mountain 3.6 km
- Antennas 4 km
- Broken Tooth 4.9 km
- approximate Sinking position of auxiliary cruiser Atlantis 873 km