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Nasa unveils powerful addition to Deep Space Network – Electronics Weekly
Nasa has added a powerful new antenna – Deep Space Station 56 (DSS-56) – to its Space Communications and Navigation’s Deep Space Network (DSN). This networ
This network connects the agency to the space robots exploring the solar system, it says. And the dish is now online and ready to communicate with a variety of missions. These will include its Perseverance rover when it lands on Mars next month.
The DSS-56 is described by Nasa as an all-in-one antenna that can communicate with all the missions that the DSN supports and can be used as a backup for other antennas.
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The new 34-meter-wide (112-foot-wide) dish has been under construction at…
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