Deep Space Network (DSN)

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

Facts on this topic will be cited from these primary and reference sources.

• 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.