Jamesburg Earth Station
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Jamesburg Earth Station is located in the rural Cachagua area of Carmel Valley, California, about Script error: No such module "convert". southeast of Monterey. It was originally built in 1968 to support the Apollo 11 Moon landing.[1][2]
The 10-story high, Script error: No such module "convert". dish, driven by a Vertex-RSI 7210 drive system, served for about 35 years as the West Coast Teleport of AT&T/COMSAT's communications Satellite Network, and was the Earth station serving Intelsat satellites parked in geosynchronous orbit over the Pacific Ocean. The dish played a role in capturing and distributing images of the Apollo 11 Moon landing and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.[3][4] The dish is housed in a 20,000 square foot building on a Script error: No such module "convert". site that has been subdivided for residential building.[4] When fiber-optic undersea communication cables became economically competitive in 2002, AT&T shut down the site and sold the entire station with its facilities intact. For a time, it was operated by 11 ham radio operators who spent five months restoring the facility. They were eventually able to bounce 20 radio signals off the moon.[2]
In 2005, a new owner, intending to use the structure as a weekend home, stripped the interior and sold the contents as scrap, although the dish itself remains.[5] The new owner decided to sell the property after his youngest son died of cancer. In January 2012, it was put up for sale for $2,950,000.[5][6]
In 2013, the Jamesburg Earth Station was leased by Lone Signal, an active SETI program, to send messages from the Earth to Gliese 526, a red dwarf star on the Catalog of Nearby Habitable Systems.[7]
Gallery
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Sign at the entrance to the Jamesburg Earth Station - July 2020
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View of Jamesburg Earth Station ATT Sign - August 2014
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View of Jamesburg Earth Station from Driveway Gate - August 2014
See also
- Andover Earth Station
- Carnarvon Tracking Station
- Roaring Creek Station
- Ground station
- Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station
- Kaena Point Space Force Station
- Sugar Grove Station
- Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station
References
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Further reading
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- Jamesburg dishTemplate:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., archived 7/9/2019
- Atlantic article on the Jamesburg station, accessed 2/12/2012
- Jamesburg earth station photos
- List of Approved Non-Routine Earth Station Antennas
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