Deep Space Network

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The Deep Space Network is NASA’s global system of large radio antennas used to track, communicate with, and receive data from distant spacecraft throughout the solar system and beyond.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf ground station network
space communication network
abbreviation DSN
angularSeparationBetweenComplexes approximately 120 degrees in longitude
country United States
designedFor communication with spacecraft beyond geostationary orbit
frequencyBandsUsed Ka-band
S-band
X-band
globalCoverage near-continuous coverage of deep space missions
hasAntennaType 34-meter beam waveguide antenna
34-meter high-efficiency antenna
70-meter dish antenna
hasPart Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex
headquartersLocation Pasadena, California
historicalPrecursor JPL deep space tracking stations of late 1950s
location Goldstone, California
Robledo de Chavela, near Madrid, Spain
Tidbinbilla, near Canberra, Australia
notableMissionSupported Cassini–Huygens
James Webb Space Telescope
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity rover)
New Horizons
Parker Solar Probe
Voyager 1
Voyager 2
operatedBy NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
operator NASA
owner NASA
partOf NASA Space Communications and Navigation program
purpose deep space communications
navigation support for interplanetary spacecraft
radio science
reception of scientific data from spacecraft
spacecraft tracking
startTime 1960s
supportsAgency European Space Agency
JAXA
NASA
other international space agencies
supportsMissionType heliophysics missions
interplanetary missions
lunar missions
some Earth-orbiting missions
space-based observatories
usedFor command uplink
radar observations of planets and asteroids
radio astronomy
ranging
telemetry
tracking
very long baseline interferometry
website https://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/


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