Deep Space Network antenna
A 70-meter dish of NASA’s Deep Space Network, the ears for every mission beyond the Moon.
- Type
- Ground station
- Status
- Operating
- First flight
- April 1966
- Size
- 70 m (230 ft)
- Built by
- NASA
- 3
- sites: Goldstone, Madrid and Canberra
- 70 m
- the largest dishes, one at each site
The Deep Space Network has three complexes about 120 degrees apart in longitude — at Goldstone in California, near Madrid and near Canberra — so that every spacecraft beyond the Moon is always in view of at least one. Each has a 70-meter antenna and several 34-meter ones.
The Goldstone 70-meter antenna began as a 64-meter dish in 1966 and was enlarged to 70 meters in 1988 to hear Voyager 2 at Neptune. Today the network talks to Voyager, the Mars rovers, Webb and Orion.
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