Word: tidbinbilla
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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Aware that the intense lunar cold might well have changed the operating frequency of Surveyor's receiver, the JPL men tried varying the tuning of their own equipment. Still they got no answer. Then, last week, a signal from an 85-ft. parabolic antenna in Australia's Tidbinbilla Valley finally got through-near the spaceship's original frequency. Surveyor's transmitter obeyed the order, turned on, and reported in response to queries that all electrical and mechanical systems were functioning once more. Surveyor was again a fully operational spacecraft...
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