Tracking Stations

ISRO's Indian Deep Space Network station near Bengaluru, whose 32 m antenna supported the Chandrayaan and Mars Orbiter missions.

Antenna

32 m (with an 18 m antenna)

The southern-hemisphere complex of NASA's Deep Space Network, in Australia. Its 70 m antenna (DSS-43) is the only one able to command Voyager 2 on its southward interstellar trajectory.

Antenna

70 m (DSS-43) plus 34 m antennas

ESA's second deep-space antenna (DSA 2), a 35 m dish in central Spain.

Antenna

35 m

The US complex of NASA's Deep Space Network, in California's Mojave Desert. Its 70 m antenna (DSS-14, the 'Mars' dish) and a cluster of 34 m beam-waveguide antennas track spacecraft across the Solar System.

Antenna

70 m (DSS-14) plus several 34 m antennas

China's 66 m deep-space antenna in the northeast, a principal station of the Chinese Deep Space Network for lunar and planetary missions.

Antenna

66 m

China's western deep-space station, with a cluster of 35 m antennas, part of the Chinese Deep Space Network.

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35 m

The European complex of NASA's Deep Space Network, outside Madrid. With Goldstone and Canberra it forms the three-station ring that keeps deep-space missions continuously in view.

Antenna

70 m (DSS-63) plus 34 m antennas

ESA's third deep-space antenna (DSA 3), a 35 m dish in Argentina — the southern-hemisphere member of Estrack's deep-space trio.

Antenna

35 m

An Estrack ground station in the Canary Islands, used for launch and early-orbit support and near-Earth tracking.

Antenna

15 m

ESA's first deep-space antenna (DSA 1), a 35 m dish in Western Australia, supporting Estrack's interplanetary missions.

Antenna

35 m

A Russian deep-space tracking station in the Far East, part of the network that descends from the Soviet-era deep-space facilities.

JAXA's 64 m deep-space antenna in Nagano, which supported the Hayabusa asteroid missions and Japan's other deep-space probes.

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64 m