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DSN Performs Major Maintenance on 70-meter Antenna
The Deep Space Network began a several month maintenance effort on the 70-meter antenna at Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. Watch the effort progress on our webcam. READ MORE...

NASA Ground-Breaking Unearths New Generation of Deep Space Network Antennas
NASA officials broke ground near Canberra, Australia on Wednesday, Feb. 24, beginning a new antenna-building campaign to improve Deep Space Network communications. READ MORE...

GAVRT Students Observe Jupiter for 24 Hours
GAVRT students, in partnership with NASA's Deep Space Network, will participate in 24-hours of Jupiter Observation on November 22-23, 2009. During the 24-hour period, radio telescopes will be focused on the largest planet in our Solar System. READ MORE...

GAVRT Students Prepare to Track LCROSS
A Pre-launch webcast is scheduled for Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 11am EDT (15:00 UTC). Several GAVRT teachers AND students will be interviewed LIVE from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. READ MORE...

Hawaii Teachers Training in Radio Astronomy
A total of twenty-seven teachers from Kaneohe, Honolulu and the Hilo District Annex are training in Radio Astronomy beginning March 23rd at three separate workshops to be part of America's Return to the Moon. READ MORE...

Ulysses Project Enjoys Long Partnership with DSN
Since its launch from Space Shuttle Discovery in October 1990, spacecraft engineers and scientists have worked closely with the Deep Space Network. Ulysses has been collecting valuable scitnse data on the Sun for over 17 years. READ MORE...

Students will soon contribute to a NASA Mission to the Moon
Students participating the Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) Project will assist engineers working with NASA's Lunar Crater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Mission is collecting spacecraft telemetry data received during the spacecraft's journey to the Moon. READ MORE...

NASA and The Beatles Celebrate Anniversaries by Beaming Song 'Across The Universe' Into Deep Space
For the first time ever, NASA beamed a song - The Beatles' "Across the Universe" - directly into deep space at 7 p.m. EST on Feb. 4, 2008. READ MORE...

Voyager and the Deep Space Network: A 30-Year Partnership
NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) has been in partnership with Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 for thirty years, providing daily communications support to the two very distant spacecraft. The excellent partnership continues as the Voyager twin spacecraft explore the regions of our universe near the area where the solar wind meets the interstellar winds - areas never before explored by human-made objects. READ MORE...

Fourteen Year-Olds Doing Real Science with Multiple NASA Missions!
The Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) Program has Middle School and High School students from around the country, and on American military installations worldwide, working alongside scientists on multiple NASA missions. READ MORE...

Extended Antenna Outage at Madrid Deep Space Network Complex
Cracks in the bearing system used to guide the Madrid 70-meter antenna were discovered during a planned equipment upgrade. The bearings will be replaced while the station is down for the upgrade. READ MORE...

Forty Years of Space Talk
"That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind." That famous communique from Apollo 11 during the historic first-ever moon walk was brought to you by the 64-meter antenna at NASA's Deep Space Network in Goldstone, Calif. READ MORE...

The Deep Space Network Celebrates 40 Years of Service
"Station 14 - this is Stardust. We have a command load to send to the spacecraft. Can we verify your command system". For the past 40 years commands have been uplinked to exploring spacecraft, and their precious science data retrieved, through the powerful transmitters, sensitive receivers, and immense antennas of the Deep Space Network, or DSN. READ MORE...

Deep Space Network Gears Up for Interplanetary Boom
NASA's Deep Space Network has completed a number of upgrades to help support the fleet of more than two dozen spacecraft touring the solar system. Among the upgrades is the addition of a new 34-meter (110-foot) antenna near Madrid, Spain, which began operations on Nov. 1. READ MORE...

Lending an Improved Ear
With the help of friends down under, calling home is about to get easier. With NASA-funded upgrades planned for this summer, the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia, will once again help communicate with spacecraft exploring the solar system. READ MORE...

Workers Save Antennas from Wildfire
Australian antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network used for communicating with spacecraft are back in normal operation after a close call with wildfires that destroyed hundreds of homes and took four lives in the Canberra area. READ MORE...

School Telescope Project Goes International
Most students at Hohenfels High School in Germany are from U.S. military families posted overseas. Sometimes America can seem far away. But that distance got smaller when they used their classroom computer to point a large telescope in California to study a place that's really far away: Jupiter. READ MORE...

A 25 Year Partnership
The Deep Space Network is proud to have provided two way communications for Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft through their 25 years of solar system exploration. READ MORE...

New Spanish Dish Will Aid Interplanetary Communications
Construction workers erecting steel components atop a new concrete chamber near Madrid, Spain, this summer are helping NASA study Mars and comets. READ MORE...

Deep Space Network Supports Mars Odyssey
The DSMS, which consists of the Deep Space Network (DSN) and the Advanced Multimission Operations System (AMMOS), has been supporting the Mars 2001 Odyssey mission since its successful launch on April 7, 2001 and is already providing critical support in anticipation of Mars Orbit Insertion /Aerobraking prior to the spacecraft's arrival at Mars. READ MORE...

New 34m Beam Wave Guide Antenna in Madrid
Preparing for the communication needs of an expected population boom in interplanetary spacecraft, NASA has selected a builder to add an advanced dish antenna, 34 meters in diameter (112 feet), near Madrid, Spain, one of the three sites of the agency's Deep Space Network. READ MORE...

DSN Makes Contact with Pioneer 10
The Pioneer Project Office at Ames Research Center sent their thanks to the many people at the Deep Space Network at JPL, Goldstone California, and Madrid, Spain who made it possible to contact Pioneer 10 on the 30th anniversary of its launch. READ MORE...

Deep Space Network Supports Cassini on its Way to Saturn
The Cassini spacecraft is supported by two major components of the JPL's Interplanetary Network Directorate (IND). READ MORE...