New Zealand Tracking Station

Using the radio astronomy observatory at AUT Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand

In 2012 SpaceX tracked the launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, in what was the first commercial unmanned flight to the International Space Station (ISS).

The observatory has the world's best vantage point from which to monitor the descent of SpaceX crafts as they splash into the Pacific Ocean, near the California coast.

SpaceX has signed a contract to monitor up to 12 space flights a year for its manned and mars missions.It uses a 30m dish

The 30m Dish at the Warkworth Radio Astronomical Observatory