Australia keeps being described as a junior AUKUS partner — but the radar in its outback and the port in its northwest are quietly rewriting who controls orbital traffic

In Western Australia’s outback near Exmouth, an array of parabolic dishes spread across the landscape is already tracking satellites in geostationary orbit for the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) Site 1, ultimately a 27-antenna array operating as a single sensor, has begun feeding tracking data to [...] The post Australia keeps being described as a junior AUKUS partner — but the radar in its outback and the port in its northwest a