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NASA's Deep Space Network location at Tidbinbilla, Australia, connected by microwave to Australia's CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope 200 miles away, is being used to observe the recently discovered supernova SN 1987A. .
April 17, 1987
The agency’s DSN provides critical communications and navigation services to dozens of space missions, and it’s being modernized to support dozens more. .
Dec. 22, 2023
Get to know the Deep Space Network (DSN)-NASA's worldwide radio telescope array that communicates with spacecraft throughout the solar system. .
Dec. 18, 2013
The DSN is being upgraded to communicate with more spacecraft than ever before and to accommodate evolving mission needs. .
Sept. 1, 2021
The DSN will enable NASA to track and communicate with Artemis I while working to provide coverage across dozens of other missions throughout the solar system. .
Nov. 15, 2022
A series of commands were radioed 16-1/2 million miles to NASA's Mariner IV spacecraft early today by JPL engineers from the Mariner spaceflight operations center to check out spacecraft equipment that will be used if Mariner is still operating normally when it reaches Mars next July 14. The Goldstone station of the DSN was used to transmit the commands. .
Feb. 11, 1965
Once the spacecraft’s antenna is realigned with Earth, communications should resume. .
July 28, 2023
The addition brings new capabilities to the network, which acts as an interplanetary switchboard, connecting us to missions at the Moon and far beyond. .
Jan. 22, 2021
Over the mission's 40 years, NASA's Voyager spacecraft have paved the way for modern deep space communications. .
Aug. 2, 2017
Lyrics for Missy Elliot’s song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” were transmitted from the DSN’s Goldstone complex to Venus, about 158 million miles (254 million kilometers) away. .
July 15, 2024
The Deep Space Network, operated for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will provide tracking support for the STS-26 flight of the space shuttle Discovery and for the deployment and on-orbit checkout of Discovery's payload, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-C (TDRS-C). .
Sept. 13, 1988
NASA's Deep Space Network, the world's largest communications system for "talking to" spacecraft, will reach a milestone on Dec. 24: the 50th anniversary of its official creation. .