Contract Tracking Operations
During OTC's last years of operation in Carnarvon, multiple tracking contracts were completed including:
- prime responsibility for controlling the European Space Agency (ESA) Giotto mission probe which sampled the tail of Halley’s Comet (the larger dish’s sole claim to fame);
- launch support for ESA missions and for the Indian Space Agency’s first satellite;
- tracking of German TV and communication satellites;
- assistance with the launch and orbital parking of Meteorsat for Africa;
- guiding the Marecs communications satellite;
- and finally, in February 1987, monitoring the launch of the Japanese geosynchronous marine observation satellite, MOS-1.
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