Deep Space Network (abreviated)

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1. listening for whispers from space NASA's Deep Space Network TONY

   RICE, ASTRONOMY DAYS JANUARY 2024

2. 2.5 GHz Wifi 12cm 5 GHz Wifi 6cm

3. Strategic Placement

4. 35° 24′ 5″ S, 148° 58′ 54″ E Photos: NASA/JPL

5. Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex Opened 19 March 1965 35°

   24′ 5″ S, 148° 58′ 54″ E

6. Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex First 26m antenna completed in

   1964 40° 25′ 45″ N, 4° 14′ 57″ W

7. Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex First antenna Pioneer Station (DSS

   - 11) completed Dec 1958 35° 25′ 36″ N, 116° 53′ 24″ W

8. Goldstone Image: NASA Goldstone Visitor Center Images: Google Earth

9. DSS-11 Pioneer 26 meter HA-Dec S bands 1965: Pioneer 3

   & 4 1981: mothballed 1985: declared National Historic Landmark Images: NASA/JPL

10. Images: Tony Rice, iagrams "Large Antennas of the Deep Space

    Network " by William Imbriale, NASA/JPL

11. DSS-12 Echo 34 meter (was 26m) HA-Dec S & X

    bands (was L) 1960: Project Echo 1996-current: Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope Images: NASA/JPL, BellLabs

12. DSS-13 Venus 26 meter Alt-Az 1962: develop high-power transmitters, low-noise

    antenna feeds, radio frequency amplifiers 1991-present: Solar System Radar Images: NASA/JPL

13. DSS-14 Mars 70 meter (was 64m) Alt-Az 1966: Mariner Identical

    antenae in Madrid & Canberra 1991-present: Solar System Radar 24 stories tall 16 million lbs Images: NASA/JPL, Rice

14. Images: NASA/JPL, Rice

15. 10 hoop structures 48 rib trusses 552 panels elevation-wheel trusses

    20' Surface accuracy within 20 µm 1 (Diameter of a raindrop) 1 "Control and Pointing Challenges of Antennas and (Radio) Telescopes" Gawronski Pointing accuracy within 0.6 arc seconds 1 1 arc second = width of a dime at 4 km (2.5 mi)

16. DSS-16 Apollo 26 meter HA-Dec 1966: Apollo Project X-Y Images:

    NASA

17. DSS-16 Venus 26 meter Alt-Az 1962: space shuttle Image: NASA/JPL

18. DSS-15 Uranus 34 meter Alt-Az 1984-2018: outer solar system missions

    Images: NASA/JPL

19. DSS-24, 25, & 26 BWG Cluster 34 meter Beam Waveguide

    Cluster Alt-Az 800,000 pounds Constructed 1992-1996 Images: NASA/JPL, Rice

20. Images and diagrams "Large Antennas of the Deep Space Network

    " by William Imbriale, NASA/JPL
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