Goldstone's Antenna Tracks Spacecraft
Late night in the desert: Goldstone's 230-foot (70-meter) antenna tracks
spacecraft day and night. This photograph was taken on Jan. 11, 2012.
The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, located in the Mojave Desert
in California, is one of three complexes that comprise NASA's Deep Space Network
(DSN). The DSN provides radio communications for all of NASA's interplanetary
spacecraft and is also utilized for radio astronomy and radar observations of
the solar system and the universe. DSN, the world's largest and most powerful
communications system for "talking to" spacecraft, will reach a milestone on
Dec. 24: the 50th anniversary of its official creation.
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena,
manages the Deep Space Network for NASA. More information about the Deep Space
Network is online at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn50.
More information about NASA's Space Communications and Navigation program is
at: www.spacecomm.nasa.gov.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA
Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui
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