[Full_Clark]

> NASA uses dishes in the Deep-Space Network (DSN) to communicate with Voyager 1. These dishes, located around the globe in Goldstone, Canberra and Madrid, are optimized for these higher frequencies

Madrid Longitude: 4.3° W

Goldstone Longitude: 116.9­° W

Canberra Longitude: 149.0° E

153.3° from Madrid to Canberra and only 94.1° from Canberra to Goldstone. Bit of a slight to Western Australia to skip over the ~120° option and put the third dish in Canberra.

[parsimo2010]

Perhaps the Aussies didn't want NASA to mess with their dishes at Geraldton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Defence_Satellite_C...

[jen729w]

The Canberra dish is super easy to visit. Source: I live here, and have. :-)

[caf]

It's only just re-opened to visitors after an extended closure that began in the COVID times!

[lizzas]

Doh! I lived there and been within 1km of it without knowing it!

[brcmthrowaway]

I think theres a CIA base in the desert right?

[caf]

You may be thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap

[RajT88]

Nah. Swamp gas reflecting the light of Venus.

[bobmcnamara]

Some conspiracy theorists will tell you Goldstone is too close to Alice for that back then.