How NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) helped ISRO in communicating with Chandrayaan-3
NASA, and more. The two European stations will complement support from NASA's Deep Space Network and ISRO's own stations to ensure the spacecraft's operators never lose sight of their pioneering Moon craft. Meanwhile, the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex, which is part of NASA's Deep Space Network, earlier tweeted, “The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, part of said Our sister station @GoldstoneDSN continues with two-way communications for @isro's #Chandrayaan3 mission to the Moon.
“As part of a worldwide network, @Madrid_DSN is in control at this time. As we say in the Deep Space Network, “Don't leave Earth without us!" NASA's Deep Space Network is the largest and most sensitive scientific telecommunications system in the world. The Deep Space Network - or DSN - is NASA’s international array of giant radio antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions, plus a few that orbit Earth.
The DSN also provides radar and radio astronomy observations that improve our understanding of the solar system and the larger universe. The DSN is operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which also operates many of the agency's interplanetary robotic space missions. The DSN consists of three facilities spaced equidistant from each other – approximately 120 degrees apart in longitude – around the world.
These sites are at Goldstone, near Barstow, California; near Madrid, Spain; and near Canberra, Australia. The strategic placement of these sites permits constant communication with spacecraft as our planet rotates – before a distant spacecraft sinks below the horizon at one DSN site, another site can pick up the signal and carry on communicating. The antennas of the Deep Space Network are the
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