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Further reading ⇓

Site
□ Site plans and photographs
□ R1
□ R2
□ R22
PLA (Proton Linear Accelerator)
□ Building plans
NIMROD
□ Excavating NIMROD
□ Nimrod operational Tannoy announcement
□ R3 building plans
□ Diagnostics and timing sequence
□ First operation of Nimrod to full energy
□ The failure of Nimrod main magnet power supply and alternators
□ Bubbly personalities
□ Investigating the digital preservation of raw Bubble Chamber data
ISIS
□ First neutrons
□ Neutron and muon source
□ Animated overview
□ Inauguration of ISIS
Space
□ NASA Ground Station
□ NASA 12m Antenna
□ James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)
Lasers
□ Joint Laser Project and CLF (1974-75)
□ R1 extension (1977)
□ Inauguration of the laser facility (1977)
□ Titania (1994-1999)
□ A history of high-power laser research and development in the United Kingdom

NASA Unified S-Band (USB) Ground Station

USB installation in Madrid (1960s)
Installation in Madrid for Apollo 10 mission (May 18, 1969) Installation in Madrid A rest between orbits Installation in Madrid

USB at Rutherford (1980 onwards)
In R1 (c.1980) On display in R68 (1999) USB detail; note the AMPTE and IRAS mission buttons USB module in storage; note the NASA inventory and calibration tags John Wright (ex-RAL) and Jay Holliday (ex-JPL) inspect the USB (June 2019)

Memos and telexes have recently come to light which indicate that the ground station was shipped from Madrid to Appleton Laboratory in May 1978. It was moved to RAL on 25 July 1979.

Unified S-Band Receiver-Exciter Subsystem (September 1968) S-Band Satellite Ground Station (1980s)

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