Talk:Raisting Earth Station

Why Raisting for Apollo 11 signal?
On 14 July 1969, the Intelsat over the Atlantic ocean quit working, cutting off television transmissions in both directions. To pick up the Apollo moon walk, the Raisting antenna was rotated to point at the Intelsat satellite over the Indian Ocean, which received the signal via Australia and the Pacific satellite.

However, the Atlantic and Pacific crossings were also crucial to getting signals from Apollo 11 back to NASA, via Spain or Australia, for two-thirds of each day. For this mission, NASA resurrected a system called SCAMA that used 12 voice circuits of an undersea telephone cable between Spain and the U.S. to carry the signal from Apollo 11, a system used before satellites replaced it. GBC (talk) 20:36, 3 June 2024 (UTC)