California Interstate Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, Western Union Telegraph Company, Intervenor

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

Under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jet Propulsion Laboratories (a division of California Institute of Technology) operates the Administration's Deep Space Instrumentation Facility in an area owned by the Federal Government called Gold-stone, in California, north of Barstow. The Goldstone facility is a ground station which receives data from and transmits commands to unmanned spacecraft. Data received from spacecraft are “bounced through” Goldstone to a facility of the unmanned deep space exploration program at Pasadena,…