QRM Interplanetary by George O. Smith was his first story in the Venus Equilateral series, which was published in Astounding Science Fiction from 1942 to 1945. Venus Equilateral is a space station at one of the Venus-Sun Lagrange points, making it perfect for maintaining interplanetary communication.
Astounding October 1942
https://archive.org/details/astoundingsciencefictionoctober1942/mode/2up
Venus Equilateral series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Equilateral