{"id":594716,"date":"2026-04-09T02:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594716\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:46:08","slug":"australias-role-in-tracking-the-artemis-ii-moon-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594716\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s role in tracking the Artemis II Moon mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">More than 50 years ago, a regional town in New South Wales played a vital role in broadcasting the first moon landing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Parkes radio telescope &#8211; also known as The Dish &#8211; tracked the Apollo 11 mission, and provided images of Neil Armstrong&#8217;s moon walk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Now all these years later, regional Australia is playing a role in the Artemis II moon mission that\u2019s underway right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">One station in the remote South Australian desert is using a Raven Defense dish to help track the Orion spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The company behind it is Southern Launch, its spokesperson Amy Featherston spoke with ABC NewsRadio&#8217;s Sarah Morice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 50 years ago, a regional town in New South Wales played a vital role in broadcasting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,290074,49454,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-594716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mustlisten","11":"tag-newsradio","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}