{"dataset":{"slug":"tracking-networks","title":"Tracking Networks","description":"Ground networks that communicate with satellites and deep-space missions.","version":"1.0.0","lastGenerated":"2026-06-29","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","entityCount":8,"sources":["nasa","esa"]},"entities":[{"id":"tracking_network:chinese-deep-space-network","name":"Chinese Deep Space Network","type":"tracking_network","domain":"science","description":"China's deep-space tracking network, operated for CNSA, with large antennas at Jiamusi (66 m) and Kashgar (35 m) in China and a station in Argentina. It supports China's lunar (Chang'e) and planetary (Tianwen) missions.","entryPath":"/deep-space-network/network/chinese-deep-space-network"},{"id":"tracking_network:commercial-deep-space","name":"Commercial Deep-Space Services","type":"tracking_network","domain":"science","description":"A growing set of commercial providers — such as KSAT, SSC, and Goonhilly — that offer deep-space and near-Earth ground-station support on a service basis, augmenting the government networks as mission traffic grows. NASA's Near Space Network increasingly buys commercial services alongside its own antennas.","entryPath":"/deep-space-network/network/commercial-deep-space"},{"id":"tracking_network:deep-space-network","name":"Deep Space Network (DSN)","type":"tracking_network","domain":"science","description":"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.","entryPath":"/satellites/network/deep-space-network"},{"id":"tracking_network:estrack","name":"ESTRACK","type":"tracking_network","domain":"science","description":"The European Space Agency's global network of ground tracking stations that communicates with ESA's Earth-orbiting and deep-space missions.","entryPath":"/satellites/network/estrack"},{"id":"tracking_network:indian-deep-space-network","name":"Indian Deep Space Network","type":"tracking_network","domain":"science","description":"ISRO's deep-space network, centred on the 32 m and 18 m antennas at Byalalu near Bengaluru. It provided tracking and communication for the Chandrayaan lunar missions and the Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan).","entryPath":"/deep-space-network/network/indian-deep-space-network"},{"id":"tracking_network:jaxa-deep-space-network","name":"JAXA Deep Space Network","type":"tracking_network","domain":"science","description":"Japan's deep-space tracking network, run by JAXA/ISAS, centred on the Usuda Deep Space Center in Nagano (a 64 m antenna) and the newer 54 m Misasa antenna. It supported the Hayabusa asteroid missions and Japan's other deep-space probes.","entryPath":"/deep-space-network/network/jaxa-deep-space-network"},{"id":"tracking_network:near-space-network","name":"Near Space Network","type":"tracking_network","domain":"science","description":"NASA's network of ground stations and relay satellites (formerly the Space Network's TDRSS and the Ground Network) that supports missions in Earth orbit and near-Earth space.","entryPath":"/satellites/network/near-space-network"},{"id":"tracking_network:russian-deep-space-network","name":"Russian Deep Space Network","type":"tracking_network","domain":"science","description":"Russia's deep-space communication facilities, operated by Roscosmos, with large antennas at Ussuriysk in the Far East and historically at Bear Lakes and Yevpatoria (Crimea). It descends from the Soviet deep-space network that supported the Luna, Venera, and Mars probes.","entryPath":"/deep-space-network/network/russian-deep-space-network"}]}