This used to be an old NASA space tracking station and launch facility. Not much left of it now. It is kind of spooky walking around the place because there's no buildings or dishes, just the foundations. There's no debris from the buildings either. It is like some great force came along and obliterated the buildings, but left the trees around them standing, unaffected. Like they just vanished.

Approaching the main gate

The old gate house is now only a foundation

Looking back at the gatehouse

The remains of the main dish

Same place, slightly different view

All that's left are these foundations

And this cable track

There were more than a million kilometers of cable laid here.

The buildings have all gone, just the foundations remain, leaving an eerie trace of walls behind.

The remains of a shower area in the main building

It looks like the drain is blocked, there is a couple of centimeters of water here.

After the rain, the place begins to look a little like a formal garden. Those trees would have been in a courtyard in the middle of a large building.

The place shines after rain

The building must have had an interesting layout

The foundations of the old staff cafeteria

Those mysterious foundations again. This place can be very spooky.

Stairs leading from the cafeteria

A small platform, once part of the main building

Underneath it is the cable run. The platform doubled as a loading bay

The only interior space on the whole complex is under this platform and in the now sealed bunker.

Cable runs from the platform

The foundations of the main workshop

It was really quite large

Foundations of a tracking radar

Approach to the sounding rocket launch pad. Note the track to the right that allowed trucks to easily turn around after arriving here.

Closer to the pad the road on the left also allowed truck turning. They would unload and then turn around past the launch pad, exiting via the road on the right (barely visible here)

The base of the launch pad.

Little remains of this launch pad.

The base of a small launch tracking dish

Tracking dish foundation and launch bunker

The remains of the launch blockhouse bunker. Note the two entry / exit hatches. I was unable to lift either of them.

Base of the second main dish

And again, the ramp around the side would make a great skateboard ramp

The helios sun camera - looks a bit like an old battleship

Helios again. Note the blue floor tiles.

Helios

Close-up of the helios mount

Helios from the distance. Note the concrete blocks in the bush behind it.