Since 1988, it has been officially called the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG); previously, it was misleadingly known as Joint Defence Space Research Facility.
自1988年起官方正式稱其為松樹谷共同防禦設施（Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap），原先則以共同防禦太空研究設施（Joint Defence Space Research Facility）之名為人所知。