Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex

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1. Story
2. The Deep Space Network's original complex, on the United States Army's Fort Irwin reservation in the Mojave Desert of California. Its 70-metre antenna, DSS-14, was built in the 1960s at 64 metres and later enlarged; it and the complex's 34-metre dishes handle the northern-hemisphere share of Voyager tracking. The desert basin site was chosen for the same reason radio observatories generally are: surrounding hills shield it from terrestrial radio noise, and the climate is dry enough to keep atmospheric absorption low at the microwave frequencies the network uses.
3. Knowledge
4. NASA Deep Space Network
5. Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
6. Connections
7. NASA Deep Space Network
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. Evidence
16. 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.