Enormous hexagon can be seen from SPACE on Australia’s coastline
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The mystery behind the huge hexagonal formation that can be seen from SPACE off the coast of Australia is explained
- A huge hexagonal formation that can be seen from space near the coast.
- It is a secret naval communication station operated by the military.
- The base is also home to high-tech technology from the United States Space Force.
A huge hexagonal formation that can be seen from space on the rugged coast of Australia is a secret Naval Communications Station.
The Harold E. Holt Naval Station is operated by the Australian Department of Defense on behalf of the Australian and United States governments.
A huge hexagonal formation in the Australian outback that can be seen from space is a secret naval communication station.
It is located near the town of Exmouth in the North West Cape of Western Australia and is named after a former Australian Prime Minister who mysteriously disappeared while swimming in 1967.
According to the book Raven Rock, which details presidential, military, and political history, author Garrett Graff states that the station is made up of 13 radio towers.
The tallest, Tower Zero, stands in the middle, while six other towers are placed in a hexagon around it.
It sends radio signals to US Navy and Royal Australian Navy ships and submarines in the western Pacific Ocean and eastern Indian Ocean.
It is considered to be the most powerful broadcast station in the southern hemisphere.
The facility is also home to high-tech technology operated by the US Department of Defense Space Force.
The Space Surveillance Telescope was installed at the facility in October of this year after being relocated from the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, in 2017 to fill a coverage gap.
The military telescope is used to detect, track, and catalog satellites, near-Earth objects, and space debris.
The Space Surveillance Telescope is operated at Naval Station Harold E. Holt
The telescope tracks thousands of objects, including space debris and active satellites.
The telescope is capable of tracking debris up to 22,000 miles above Earth’s surface.
Another space surveillance radar is also being installed and, once completed, will be operated remotely by Royal Australian Air Force personnel.
It will provide a “space situational awareness capability”, allowing space assets and debris to be tracked.
In 2008, a Qantas plane plummeted 200 meters in seconds after a temporary malfunction.
It was suggested that powerful radio signals from the naval communications base interfered with the aircraft and caused a failure in its system.
The base manager denied that the signals could have caused the malfunction.
Naval Station Harold E. Holt is a joint Australian-United States naval communication station located on the northwest coast of Australia.
Australians living nearby have also shared their own stories about the station.
‘Fun fact, it is one of the largest in the world. They produce their own energy and also treat and produce their own water.
‘I’ve been there. [It’s an] old American camp and there’s even a mini town that has a pool and bowling alley,” another shared.
‘We always make fun of my partner because he is a gardener who maintains the towers and the surroundings. We always say that’s what you tell us, but you’re secretly in a secure office transmitting messages from space to Russia,” another person joked.
The town of Exmouth was built at the same time as the communications station to provide support for the base and house the families of US Navy personnel.