r west, it is a happy coincidence that there is already a joint Australian-U.S. communications facility at the new home of the FPS-134 radar, North West Cape.
The telescope could be based at the same location or at Geraldton, says the Defense Department, presumably referring to the Kojarena satellite communications station inland from that remote Western Australia town. A final decision to move that sensor to Australia has not yet been made. “Australia and the U.S. are currently in the early stages of investigating all the issues associated with moving the space surveillance telescope to Australia,” says the spokeswoman.