Deep Space Network (DSN)
NASA's international array of giant radio antennas — at Goldstone (California), Madrid, and Canberra — that communicates with interplanetary spacecraft and distant satellites, spaced around the globe for continuous coverage.
Overview
NASA's international array of giant radio antennas — at Goldstone (California), Madrid, and Canberra — that communicates with interplanetary spacecraft and distant satellites, spaced around the globe for continuous coverage.
Individual ground stations are described within the network rather than modelled as separate entities — a stated scope limit of this encyclopedia, not fabricated data.
Knowledge connections
- Operated byNASA
- Operated byNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- TracksVoyager 1
- TracksVoyager 2
- TracksCassini–Huygens
- TracksNew Horizons
- TracksJuno
- TracksParker Solar Probe
- TracksJames Webb Space Telescope
- TracksOSIRIS-REx
- TracksLucy
- TracksPsyche
- TracksDART
- Uses bandS-band
- Uses bandX-band
- Uses bandKa-band
- Associated withCommercial Deep-Space Services
- ContainsGoldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
- ContainsMadrid Deep Space Communications Complex
- ContainsCanberra Deep Space Communication Complex
- Associated withRadiometric Navigation
- Associated withDelta-DOR
- Associated withCoordinated Universal Time (UTC)
- Associated withSpacecraft Clock (SCLK)
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.