The road to the Deep Space Network

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Apr 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993ieees..30...50w&link_type=abstract

IEEE Spectrum (ISSN 0018-9235), vol. 30, no. 4, p. 50-57.

Computer Science

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Communication Networks, Data Transmission, Deep Space Network, Spacecraft Communication, Antenna Arrays, Antenna Design, Research And Development, Space Exploration

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The history and current status of the NASA Deep Space Network, a system of 13 antennas of various designs and sizes located around the world to stay in continuous contact with spacecraft out to the edge of the solar system, are reviewed. A major step in the evolution of the Deep Space Network is considered to be the installation of 210-ft-diameter antennas to support sophisticated spacecraft sending data at higher rate back to earth at Goldstone in 1966 and at Tidbinbilla and Robledo de Chevala in 1973. New 340-meter multifrequency beam-waveguide antenna, in which weather sensitive microwave components were to be put in an equipment room, was installed for research and development at Goldstone in 1990.

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