Picture Album of the Deep Space Network Compiled by N. A. Renzetti and D. Worthington July 1994 ... and put on the Internet by Ron Baalke

The photographs in this album hang in the fourth-floor hallway of Building 303 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. In order to make them available to a wider audience, we have created this album. In addition to all of the facilities of the Deep Space Network, we have included photos of Parkes Radio Observatory, Australia, and the Very Large Array, Socorro, New Mexico. These two great radio observatories have collaborated and augmented the Network on some very special science events, namely, the Voyager encounters with Uranus and Neptune, and the Giotto rendezvous with Comets Halley and Grigg-Skjellerup.

Table of Contents

The Mojave Desert in 1958.

Pioneer Station at Goldstone, California.

Closure of the Pioneer Station, Goldstone, California

Night View of the Antenna at the Pioneer Station, Goldstone California.

Echo Station at Goldstone California.

Mobile Tracking Station at Goldstone California.

First Spacecraft Monitoring Station at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Antenna at Woomera, Australia.

Antenna at Johannesburg, South Africa.

New Polar-Mounted Antenna at the Goldstone Echo Site in California.

Az-El Antenna Move from the Echo Site to the Venus Research and Development Site, Goldstone, California

Venus Research and Development Site at Goldstone California.

First Deep Space Station in Spain.

Second Deep Space Station in Spain.

Closure of the Cebreros Station, Spain.

First Deep Space Station at Tidbinbilla, Australia.

Suitcase Telemetry Station, Madagascar.

Spacecraft Monitoring Station at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Deep Space Station, Ascension Island.

Deep Space Network Operations Control Center at JPL, Pasadena, California.

Compatibility Test Area at JPL, Pasadena, California.

64-Meter Antenna Under Construction at Goldstone California.

64-Meter Antenna at Parkes, Australia.

How Large is Large?

64-Meter Antenna at Tidbinbilla, Australia.

64-Meter Antenna at Robledo de Chavela, Spain.

The Apollo Program and the Deep Space Network.

Conversion of the 26-Meter Antenna to 34 Meters.

Spacecraft Monitoring Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Subnet of High-Efficiency, 34-Meter Antennas.

70-Meter Antenna Conversion Project.

Very Large Array Radio Telescope and the DSN.

Evolution of Planetary Navigation Accuracy Using Network-Generated Radio Metric Data.

Profile of Deep Space Communications Capability.

Deep Space Network, 1992 Configuration.

New Beam-Waveguide Antenna at the Venus Research and Development Site, Goldstone, California.

Microwave Holographic Images of the Beam-Waveguide Antenna at the Venus Research and Development Site.

History of the DSN