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View from the Earth's north pole, showing the field of view of the main DSN antenna locations. Once a mission gets more than 30,000 km (19,000 mi) from Earth, it is always in view of at least one of the stations. Tracking vehicles in deep space is quite different from tracking missions in low Earth orbit (LEO). Deep space missions are visible ...
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A 50-meter antenna at Miyun (~116°E), near Beijing. A 40-meter antenna in Yunnan (~101°E). In 2012, improvements were made to support Chang'e 3 and Chang'e 4 Moon missions, including: [7] Upgrades to the ground facilities at Kashgar and Qingdao, and a deep-space ground control station at Jiamusi. A new 35-meter antenna at the Kashgar station.
The MDSCC is part of NASA's Deep Space Network run by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. [3] The facility contributes to the Deep Space Network's mission to provide the vital two-way communications link that tracks and controls interplanetary spacecraft and receives the images and scientific information they collect.
The forerunner of the Deep Space Network was established in January 1958, when JPL, then under contract to the U.S. Army, deployed portable radio tracking stations in Nigeria, Singapore, and California to receive telemetry and plot the orbit of the Army-launched Explorer 1, the first successful U.S. satellite.
The station is one of three [5] satellite communication stations in the NASA Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program’s Deep Space Network (DSN), whose mission is to provide the vital two-way communications link that tracks and controls interplanetary spacecraft and receives the images and scientific information they collect.
The beam waveguide antenna addresses these problems by locating the feed antenna in a "feed house" at the base of the antenna, instead of in front of the dish. The radio waves collected by the dish are focused into a beam and reflected by metal surfaces in a path through the supporting structure to the stationary feed antenna at the base.
The main antenna is a 32-meter Deep Space Antenna. The wheel and track 32 m antenna is a state-of-the-art system that supported the Chandrayaan-1 and later the Mars Orbiter Mission mission operations. [4] It is currently supporting the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter and the Aditya-L1 mission as well as actively tracking the Chandrayaan-3 Propulsion ...