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The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC), commonly called the Goldstone Observatory, is a satellite ground station located in Fort Irwin [1] in the U.S. state of California. Operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), its main purpose is to track and communicate with interplanetary space missions.
The NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) is a worldwide network of spacecraft communication ground segment facilities, located in the United States (California), Spain (), and Australia (Canberra), that supports NASA's interplanetary spacecraft missions.
On 26 March 1976, the center was renamed the NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) [8] after Hugh L. Dryden, a prominent aeronautical engineer who died in office as NASA's deputy administrator in 1965 and Joseph Sweetman Ames, who was an eminent physicist, and served as president of Johns Hopkins University.
The Deep Space Optical Communications team worked during the early morning hours of November 14 in the Psyche mission support area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to ...
During the mission, an uncrewed Orion capsule spent 10 days in a distant retrograde 60,000 kilometers (37,000 mi) orbit around the Moon before returning to Earth. [10] Artemis II, the first crewed mission of the program, will launch four astronauts in 2025 [11] on a free-return flyby of the Moon at a distance of 8,900 kilometers (5,500 mi). [12 ...
The NASA/JPL Educator Resource Center, which is moving from its location at the Indian Hill Mall in Pomona, California, at the end of 2013, [56] offers resources, materials and free workshops for formal and informal educators covering science, technology, engineering and science topics related to NASA missions and science.
Commercial and U.S. Government uncrewed missions. Adjacent to NASA KSC. United States: Vandenberg Space Force Base, California: 1958– 500+ Interplanetary Satellites, ballistic missile tests. Government and commercial launches. [64]
The SFOF has monitored and controlled all interplanetary and deep space exploration for NASA and other international space agencies since 1964. The facility also acted as a backup communications facility for Apollo missions. [1] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] [3]