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It’s not clear how long #MDSCC will be out of service or how that will affect spacecraft operations. The #DSN was already suffering from a capacity crunch due to increasing demand for spacecraft communications, exacerbated by damage to the 70-meter antenna at #Goldstone that has taken it out of service until 2028 for repairs and upgrades https://spacenews.com/nasa-and-esa-facilities-avoid-major-damage-from-wildfires-in-spain/
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The 70-meter and 34-meter dishes 📡 at the complex are not components that can be quickly replaced or repaired. A single 70-meter antenna's dish alone spans the area of a city block, its steerable mount is a precision engineering system requiring specialized components, and its internal cable wrap threads tens of thousands of meters of power cable, data lines, and fluid hoses through a rotating structure https://www.techtimes.com/articles/321564/20260725/wildfire-burns-through-nasa-deep-space-network-station-spain-six-antennas-risk.htm
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📡 #NASA’s #DSN is currently oversubscribed and for the foreseeable future will continue to be overburdened by the demands created by an increasing number of #DeepSpace 🌌 missions, including crewed and #robotic missions. Capacity remains a challenge because the Agency has made limited progress ⏳🥱 towards upgrading the DSN. The Agency does not expect to have each of the three sites (#Canberra, #Goldstone, and #Madrid) equipped with 80 kW transmitters until at least 📆 2029 https://oig.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ig-23-016.pdf
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the important #ArtemisII numbers from #NASA’s #DSN 🎉 👀
RANGE
412.00 thousand kmROUND-TRIP LIGHT TIME
2.75 sec
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DSS-43 & DSS-34 are both communicating with #Artemis on S-band:DSS-43 has downlink @ 3Mb/sec and -110 dBm
DSS-34 has downlink and uplink
(not shown: at the time this screenshot was taken DSS-34 had downlink @ 3Mb/sec and -110 dBm & it’s uplink was transmitting @ 0.2 kW
fantastic work by everyone out at #CDSCC and the rest of the DSN 👏👏👏
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it looks like DSS-43 & DSS-34 out at #CDSCC^ are setting up to communicate with #ArtemisII during their ##TLI burn @ 10:49 local time (AEDT)… 👀
ETA: it looks like the DSN will just be watching & waiting as #Orion has switched back to #TDRS for the TLI burn – I’m guessing DSN is pointed & tracking Orion on standby in case they’re needed (🤞 not)
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html
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^ the #Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
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note: #DSN uses a “follow the sun” approach for operating antennas, so the antennas at #MDSCC in #Madrid are currently being operated by the ops team at #CDSCC in #Canberra since it’s day time here in #Aus & night time in Spain 🙃
normally there’s only a skeleton maintenance crew on site at the Deep Space Communication Complexes overnight but I expect there are some additional staff on site (or on call) just in case for such important mission support
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you can see what’s happening on the #DSN Now website, part of #NASA’s #EyesOn visualisation tools
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html
antennas showing “ART2” are currently in direct comms with #ArtemisII & antennas showing “DSN” are mostly^ tasked to #Artemis mission support but not currently communicating with the spacecraft
– antennas with “squiggly lines” going in both directions are both transmitting & receiving data (Tx & Rx)
– antennas with a squiggly line going in one direction is currently either transmitting or receiving data
– antennas with a sine wave line have carrier lock but aren’t transmitting or receiving (not shown)
– details about the comms for the selected antenna are shown in the panel at the bottom of the page
you can see in the attached pic that antennas DSS-54 & DSS-56 at #MDSCC (the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex) are currently communicating with ArtemisII – 54 is both Tx & Rx on S-band & 56 is Rx on S-band and data rates look great
^ I say “mostly” ‘coz “DSN” usually means testing or maintaining – one or two antennas may be undergoing maintenance atm rather than supporting ArtemisII, I don’t have complete visibility of the antenna schedule 💁♀️ -
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comms will switch over from #TDRS to the #DeepSpaceNetwork soon – sending good vibes to [@]nascom1 & my other friends in #DSN spacecraft ops out at the #CDSCC in Tidbinbilla who are about to take the reins 💕 🖖
you can dive into some amazing historical skeets & tweets from [@]nascom1 over at https://bsky.app/profile/nascom1.bsky.social & https://x.com/nascom1 -
“#Austria’s counter-intelligence can do little: under Austrian law, #espionage cannot be prosecuted unless it is carried out against national interest. Despite the #DSN’s recommendations, Vienna has shown little interest in expelling diplomats or taking other measures against Russian operatives.
The DSN provided the government with a list of people it knows operate #Russia’s secret signals #intelligence stations in #Vienna.”
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/49f8d54e-fccc-46c8-a4ef-c62b2fd18e80
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Goldstone’s 70-Meter Antenna Under the Stars 🪐
#DSN #Goldstone #Mars #MarsScienceLaboratory
⏩ 5 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=5&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20260128011010
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[THÉÂTRE]
" Je fais du théâtre avec parfois des degrés de pessimisme. Comme dans la tragédie grecque. Je mets le pessimisme dans le théâtre pour garder l’optimisme dans la vie". Entretien avec Tiago Rodrigues, dramaturge et metteur en scène, directeur du festival d'Avignon.Il évoque ses deux pièces "Chœur des amants", jouée à la scène nationale de Dieppe et "La Distance", présentée au Volcan au Havre.
https://www.relikto.com/.../tiago-rodrigues-le-theatre.../
@tiagorodrigues
#DSN #dieppescenenationale #dieppe #LeVolcan #scenenationaleduhavre #lehavre #tiagorodrigues #theatre #saisonculturelle #theatreennormandie #FestivalAvignon #sortirennormandie -
I was telling my wife about how Star Trek Deep Space Nine has space Nazis… I misspoke and said there is a character named “Gul Gadot”
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Star trackers 🎇 are known for their accuracy, making them indispensable for #DeepSpace missions, where other reference points might not be available. They capture images of the night sky, comparing them to an onboard star map 🌌. The Deep Space Network* (#DSN) extends navigation capabilities by employing large antennas 📡 to track spacecraft https://findyourconstellation.com/how-space-missions-navigate-using-constellations
* https://overpass-turbo.eu/?w=%22communication%3Aspace%22%3D%22deep_space%22+global&R
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NASA’s 70 meter Deep Space Antenne is beschadigd, met alle gevolgen
De verouderde infrastructuur van het Deep Space Network draait op volle toeren en heeft dringend een upgrade nodig. Het laatste
#DeepSpaceNetwork #DSN #goldstone #nasa #radioantenne #radioschotel
https://www.kuuke.nl/nasas-70-meter-deep-space-antenne-is-beschadigd-met-alle-gevolgen/ -
#mdr:
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Wie würden außerirdische Zivilisationen ihre Raumfahrt betreiben – und könnten wir ihre Signale empfangen? Eine neue Studie von Forschenden der Penn State University und des Jet Propulsion Laboratory der Nasa liefert überraschende Antworten und schlägt neue Strategien für die Suche nach außerirdischer Intelligenz (Seti) vor.
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https://www.mdr.de/wissen/astronomie-raumfahrt/aliens-ausserirdische-finden-kommunikation-auch-wir-sind-im-weltall-sichtbar-100.html22.8.2025
#Außerirdische #DSN #Ekliptik #JPL #Kommunikation #Leben #PSU #Raumfahrt #SETI #SpaceFlight #Technosignatur
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DS N8 Electric Car Review: 750km Range and Luxury Features
#automotivetechnology #AutonomousDriving #carreviews #DSN°8 #ElectricVehicles
https://blazetrends.com/ds-n8-electric-car-review-750km-range-and-luxury-features/?fsp_sid=54994 -
@MisophonicSpree @heymcdermott
Many people do not understand how journalists work, so it is not surprising the writers don’t give Jake an authentic workflow.
#startrek #allstartrek #dsn -
Hackaday Links: January 5, 2025 - Good news this week from the Sun’s far side as the Parker Solar Probe checked in a... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/05/hackaday-links-january-5-2025/ #auxiliarypowerunit #deepspacenetwork #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #raspberrypi #ebenupton #landmarks #hackchat #captcha #lawsuit #slider #boeing #parker #apple #solar #doom #siri #apu #dsn #sun #ai
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Hackaday Links: January 5, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/01/05/hackaday-links-january-5-2025/ #auxiliarypowerunit #DeepSpaceNetwork #HackadayColumns #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #raspberrypi #EbenUpton #landmarks #HackChat #captcha #lawsuit #Slider #boeing #Parker #apple #solar #doom #siri #APU #DSN #sun #ai
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The installation of a new 34-meter radio antenna dish at the NASA Deep Space Network site at Goldstone, California is going well. #NASA #NASA_JPL #DSN
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Here is a fascinating time-lapse video of the full construction, assembly and installation of NASA’s Deep Space Station 53 (DSS-53) at the Deep Space Network’s Madrid complex in Spain.
The video covers the period from November 2018 to March 2020. The antenna became fully operational in late February 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Np25TRfu8
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTE4redzJAk for a longer video taken from a different angle.