NASA Deep Space Network

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1. Story
2. The three-site radio network that is the only means of speaking to either Voyager, and the reason the mission is as much a ground achievement as a flight one. Its complexes sit roughly 120 degrees of longitude apart — Goldstone in the Mojave Desert, Robledo de Chavela near Madrid, and Tidbinbilla outside Canberra — so that a spacecraft anywhere in deep space is always in view of at least one of them as the Earth turns. Each complex has a 70-metre antenna and several 34-metre ones. The network is shared across every deep-space mission NASA flies and is chronically oversubscribed, so Voyager time is allocated rather than assumed. Managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
3. Knowledge
4. The light-day as a distance
5. NASA Deep Space Network
6. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
7. Connections
8. Voyager 1
9. The light-day as a distance
10. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
11. Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
12. Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex
13. DSS-43, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
14. Voyager 1 reaches one light-day from Earth
15. NASA Deep Space Network
16. Voyager 1 reaches one light-day from Earth
17. Voyager 1
18. Voyager 2
19. NASA Deep Space Network
20. The full Grand Tour is cancelled and rebuilt as a two-spacecraft mission
21. Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem is switched off
22. Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument is switched off
23. The "Big Bang" power manoeuvre on Voyager 2
24. Evidence
25. The Deep Space Network comprises three complexes spaced roughly 120 degrees apart in longitude — Goldstone in California, Robledo de Chavela near Madrid and Tidbinbilla near Canberra — each with a 70-metre antenna and several 34-metre antennas; DSS-43 at Canberra is the only antenna capable of transmitting commands to Voyager 2, whose trajectory carries it far south of the ecliptic. V55 verification basis: THE PAGES WERE NOT REACHED — jpl.nasa.gov is blocked to this session and the search budget was exhausted. The DSS-43 uplink exclusivity is a widely reported fact that a curator should confirm, along with the dates of the antenna's 2020 upgrade outage.