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	Heavy Traffic; Keeping Communication Lines Open in an Ever-Crowded Solar System
		The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, located in the Mojave Desert in California, is one of three complexes which comprise NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN).
		The DSN provides radio communications for all of NASA's interplanetary spacecraft and is also utilized for radio astronomy and radar observations of the solar system and the universe.
		The amount of time mission scientist get to track and communicate with their spacecraft is determined through a DSN management team, which gives priority to vehicles performing critical maneuvers such as going into orbit around a planet.
	www.space.com /businesstechnology/technology/dsn_future_020529-1.html (1429 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - NASA
		Work began on Space Station Freedom as a focus for the manned space program but within NASA there was argument that these projects came at the expense of more inspiring unmanned missions such as the Voyager probes.
		The space shuttle will be retired in 2010 and Orion will replace it by 2014, capable of both docking with the ISS and leaving the Earth's orbit.
		The Space Shuttles were able to dock with the space station Mir while it was operational, and are now able to dock with the International Space Station - a joint project of many space agencies.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=NASA (3181 words)

	Deep Space Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Deep Space Network is an international network of radio antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions, and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe.
		The Deep Space Network was given responsibility for its own research, development, and operation in support of all of its users.
		DSN coverage of the Southern Hemisphere is limited, in spite of the Canberra complex.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deep_Space_Network (1152 words)

	Space Today Online - NASA Deep Space Network communications with interplanetary probes
		The complexes are far from heavily populated areas so that the very weak signals from distant spacecraft are not contaminated or obscured by radio interference from electrical power lines, radio and television stations, or household and industrial appliances.
		In the course of developing and operating communications equipment for all interplanetary probes, DSN became a world leader in the development of low-noise receivers; tracking, telemetry and command systems; digital signal processing; and deep space navigation.
		In 2002, the Deep Space Network engineers celebrated 25 years of two-way communication with the Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 spacecraft, which today are exploring the far outer reaches of the Solar System.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/DeepSpaceNetwork/DeepSpaceNetwork.html (1973 words)

	Deep Impact: Technology: Team Members Visit the DSN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		While I was in Southern California supporting the "Encounter" of the Deep Impact spacecraft with comet Tempel 1 in early July 2005, I had the opportunity to visit the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex about a hundred miles northeast of Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert.
		The Goldstone complex occupies a 52 square-mile area, throughout which are scattered about 15 different antennas, ranging in size from 9 meters (29.5 ft) across to a mammoth 70 meters (230 ft).
		Being part of the Deep Impact team, we were able to fly to the Goldstone complex on the NASA-7 aircraft, a small plane used to shuttle personnel between NASA facilities.
	deepimpact.umd.edu /tech/dsn-teamvisit.html (804 words)

	NASA SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION HISTORY \| RETURN TO EARTH.
		NASA had won the space race, and in some senses this left it without direction, or at the very least without the public attention and interest that was necessary to guarantee large budgets from Congress.
		Plans for ambitious follow-on projects to construct a space station, establish a lunar base and launch a human mission to Mars by 1990 were proposed but with the end to procurement of Saturn and Apollo hardware there was no capability to support these.
		The space shuttle will be retired in 2010 and the Crew Exploration Vehicle will replace it by 2014, capable of both docking with the ISS and leaving the Earth's orbit.
	www.solarnavigator.net /n_a_s_a_space_shuttle.htm (2205 words)

	National Park Service: Man in Space (Tracking Stations)
		It was built in 1958 and is at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near the northeast tip of Goldstone Dry Lake approximately 45 miles northwest of Barstow, California.
		Because spacecraft move much like a celestial object in space after traveling several thousand miles from the Earth, it was natural to choose a mount that would steer the antenna from one horizon to the other at a sidereal rate, thus simplifying the mechanical complexity.
		While research in sophisticated techniques of space age telecommunications had been going on since 1954, there was little experience in dealing with the practical problems of tracking a spacecraft traveling far from Earth, maintaining communication contact, and capturing radio waves generated from the far reaches of space.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky4/space21.htm (1124 words)

	Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) is located in Australia at Tidbinbilla in a valley of the Murrumbidgee River, about half an hour's drive out of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, accessible from either the northern or southern suburbs from the Paddy's River Road.
		It is commonly referred to as the Tidbinbilla Deep Space Tracking Station and was officially opened on 19 March 1965 by the then Prime Minister of Australia Sir Robert Menzies.
		The station is separated from Canberra by the Murrumbidgee River, but most notably by the Coolamon Ridge and Urambi Hills that help shield the city's radio frequency (RF) noise from the dishes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canberra_Deep_Space_Communications_Complex (527 words)

	News in Science - The Dish: NASA couldn't do without it - 11/09/2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Communication with spacecraft is usually undertaken at three facilities worldwide: in California, Madrid, and here in Australia at a facility just out of Canberra.
		The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex is part of NASA's Deep Space Network, which scans the world to keep in constant touch with spacecraft no matter where they are in the solar system.
		The data will then be sent back to Canberra, combined with CPSSC data, and transmitted to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the DSN.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s671153.htm (480 words)

	SPACE.com -- Deep Space Network Threatened by Australian Fires
		The Australian complex is located 25 miles (40 kilometers) southwest of Canberra near the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.
		The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex features four giant antennas including Deep Space Station 43 - a 230-foot (70-meter) steerable antenna - the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.
		The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex features a number of antennas that are required daily to receive from, and transmit information to a wide variety of spacecraft.
	www.space.com /news/dsn_fires_030123.html (624 words)

	Cassini-Mission to Saturn-Operations-Navigation-Pointing
		The large dish-shaped antennas of the Deep Space Network (DSN) are radio telescopes measuring up to 70 meters in diameter.
		The spacecraft's downlink can then be received by the Deep Space Network, and the stored data can be played back.
		Once the downlink has been received, the DSN can begin transmitting the uplink at X-band frequency (about 8.5 Ghz) to send commands to provide a reference frequency for the spacecraft to set its downlink for coherent Doppler and carrying out ranging measurements.
	saturn.jpl.nasa.gov /mission/nav-pointing.cfm (269 words)

	The Universe Today - O Canada! Arming the International Space Station
		Canadarm 2, the Space Station's new robotic arm, which current resident astronaut Susan Helms referred to as "a large cherry-picker," was brought to Alpha last week in the Space Shuttle Endeavour's cargo bay.
		The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex is being used as the clearest point of radio contact with the recently launched Mars Odyssey spacecraft in the southern hemisphere, and Australian scientists are respected worldwide for their ongoing contribution to astronomical research.
		Thomas is no stranger to the complexity of Canadian space technology, having used the Shuttle's robotic arm last month to manipulate the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module or MPLM, berthing it to the side of the Station's Unity Node and returning it to the Shuttle's cargo bay prior to the flight home.
	www.universetoday.com /html/articles/2001-0427a.html (1507 words)

	Space Travel and Communication
		Explain why radiowaves and microwaves are the most useful parts of the electromagnetic spectrum for communication in space.
		Investigate the relationship between the length of a receiving or transmitting antenna and the wavelength (and frequency) of a particular form of electromagnetic radiation.
		Communications and Space Weather - from IPS Radio and Space Services, a unit of the Department of Industry Tourism and Resources, Australia
	science.uniserve.edu.au /school/quests/spacewq.html (1655 words)

	Deep Space Communications Complex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex which is located at Tidbinbilla, Australian Capital Territory near Canberra, Australia.
		The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex which located about 35 miles north of Barstow, California on the Fort Irwin Military Reservation.
		The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (Complejo Espacial de Comunicaciones de Madrid) which is located in Madrid, Spain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deep_Space_Communications_Complex (128 words)

	World-Wide Web Resources - Astronomy and Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Space Physics, from the National Space Science Data Center.
		Glenn Research Center, responsible for developing and transferring critical technologies that address national priorities in aeropropulsion and space applications, focusing on research for new aeropropulsion technologies, aerospace power, microgravity science, electric propulsion, and communications technologies for aeronautics, space, and aerospace applications.
		Space and Earth Science Programs Directorate, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible for the management and direction of all functions and activities, including the application of Laboratory resources, necessary for the definition, acquisition, implementation, and conduct of space and earth science research, NASA flight instruments and NASA flight missions.
	www.uky.edu /Subject/astronomy.html (1446 words)

	HobbySpace - Space Log
		At the moment space tourism is a field where reality, hoaxes and science fiction are mixed up in such a way that it makes difficult for the general public to distinguish between reality and wishes.
		The ISS ham radio capabilities continue to expand and it is used regularly by the astronauts to communicate with hams and student groups on earth.
		As international political support for space programmes has weakened, so utopian cultural arguments for space exploration have begun to re-emerge, such as Russian cosmism, the artistic and philosophical idealism that Earth is the cradle for humankind and that sooner or later we will inevitably move into space.
	www.hobbyspace.com /AAdmin/archive/News/2003/News-2003-11.html (5402 words)

	Canberra Attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The NASA Deep Space Network - or DSN - is an international network of antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the Solar System and the universe.
		Arguably the most important, and definitely the most moving institution in Canberra is the Australian War Memorial.
		The building, a mammoth sandstone edifice at one point of the Parliamentary Triangle, does not seek to celebrate conflict but rather, remembers the heroism and sacrifice of every Australian who died for his or her country in wartime.
	www.canberraattractions.com.au (241 words)

	A closer look at the Mars Rover :: ABC Canberra
		The staff of the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex at Tidbinbilla plus members of the local volunteer fire brigade, lined up for a commemorative "thank you" shot.
		The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex will be an integral part of earth's communication with the rover.
		To hear 666 ABC Canberra's Joel Rheinberger speaking with American Ambassador, Tom Schieffer and Director of the NASA Jet Propulsion laboratory, Charles Elachi.
	www.abc.net.au /canberra/stories/s804897.htm (224 words)

	NASA (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ('''NASA''') (established 1958) is the government agency responsible for the United States of America's Space program and long-term general aerospace research.
		NASA's early programs were research into manned spaceflight, and were conducted under the pressure of the competition between the USA and the USSR (the Space Race) that existed during the Cold War.
		[[Space Shuttle Columbia, April 12 1981]] The Space Shuttle became the major focus of NASA in the late 1970s and the 1980s.
	nasa.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (1938 words)

	Deep Space Communications Complex (DSCC)
		The name by which any of the three Deep Space Network tracking sites around the world is known.
		These sites are at Goldstone, California; near Madrid, Spain; and near Canberra, Australia (see Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex).
		They are spaced about equally around the Earth for continuous tracking of deep-space vehicles.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/D/DSCC.html (121 words)

	Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is part of the worldwide Deep Space Network run by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
		The Complex is commonly referred to as the Tidbinbilla Deep Space Tracking Station and was officially opened on the 19th of March 1965 by the then Prime Minister of Australia Sir Robert Menzies.
		As at March 2005 there are four antennas in use, one 26-metre, two 34-metre and one 70-metre, which is the largest steerable parabolic antenna in the Southern Hemisphere.
	canberra-deep-space-communications-complex.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (223 words)

	DSN Radio Astronomy MRR Narrative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		To realize the full potential of the NASA space communication facilities for radio astronomy, the equipment and operational procedures available to astronomers using the DSN should equal the capabilities available at radio observatories.
		The ability of VLBI observations to determine complex radio source structure is enhanced by increasing the number and geographical diversity of antennas.
		Consequently, the use of non-DSN space communications antennas may be requested for VLBI research.
	dsnra.jpl.nasa.gov /mrr.html (850 words)

	Deep Space Network Home Page
		Public Tours of the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex are available.
		To view trajectory maps and information on the current location of spacecraft that the Deep Space Network is curently tracking, click here.
		Learn all about Deep Space Network tracking stations by building this educational scale model of a 34m Beam Waveguide Deep Space Station.
	deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov /dsn/index.html (388 words)

	Australia telescopes in Huygens space-probe experiment
		It is separate from the tracking of the probe's parent Cassini spacecraft, which will be done by NASA’s Deep Space Communication Network, including the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex at Tidbinbilla, ACT.
		The Huygens probe is supplied by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Cassini orbiter by NASA.
		NASA is providing the mission operations and telecommunications through its Deep Space Network of antennas, which includes the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex at Tidbinbilla.
	www.atnf.csiro.au /news/press/huygens_alert.html (579 words)

	Southern Skies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The weather in Canberra (which is in the "bush" and not on the coast) was generally sunny during the day and warm bordering on hot (90-98 degrees farheinheit) in the afternoon.
		Many evenings in Canberra were clear until 10-11 o'clock when the clouds would roll in from the coastal east.
		Even though I was in the middle of Canberra, the nation's capitol with a population of 300,000, my Sky Quality Meter gave a 19.7 reading -much better than my home town of Eugene (population 200,000) and about what I had experienced at Mt. Pisgah 8 miles from the edge of Eugene.
	home.comcast.net /~jkjoregon/southernsky.html (1061 words)

	spacetoday.net: Wildfires destroy Australian observatory
		The fire, part of a series of brushfires around the Australian capital of Canberra, destroyed the Mount Stromlo Observatory complex just west of Canberra in a matter of hours on Saturday.
		No one affiliated with the observatory was injured in the fire, although the Canberra wildfires overall have claimed four lives.
		Officials at the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex, one of the three NASA Deep Space Network facilities worldwide, are also keeping an eye on the wildfires, which at one point approached the perimeter fence of the complex before passing.
	www.spacetoday.net /Summary/1426 (368 words)

	Astronomy and space facilities (Overview) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Each day the antennas of NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) receive hundreds of gigabytes of data, including thousands of images, from dozens of spacecraft across the Solar System and beyond.
		The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) was established more than 40 years ago and is one of three DSN stations world-wide.
		Not all these missions are NASA’s: from time to time the CDSCC also supports the missions of other space organisations.
	www.csiro.au /csiro/content/standard/ps4,,.html (355 words)

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