Premise: Pine Gap is the commonly used name for an Australian Earth station approximately 18 km south-west of the town of Alice Springs, Northern Territory in the centre of Australia which is operated by both Australia and the United States. Since 1988, it has been officially called the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG); previously, it was known as Joint Defence Space Research Facility.
Hypothesis: The Pine Gap Earth station was built in 1988.