{"id":795127,"date":"2025-04-08T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=795127"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:43:05","slug":"sixty-years-in-canberra-nasas-deep-space-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=795127","title":{"rendered":"Sixty Years in Canberra: NASA\u2019s Deep Space Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"hds-attachment-single__caption color-carbon-05 padding-0 p-sm\">This March 4, 2020, image shows Deep Space Station 43, a 70-meter-wide (230-feet-wide) radio antenna at NASA\u2019s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia. The facility celebrated its 60th anniversary on March 19, 2025, while also breaking ground on a new radio antenna. The pair of achievements are major milestones for the network, which communicates with spacecraft all over the solar system using giant dish antennas located at three complexes around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: NASA<\/p>\n<p class=\"hds-attachment-single__image_article color-carbon-05 padding-0 p-sm\"><span class=\"line-height-alt-1 color-spacesuit-white\">Read More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" fill=\"none\"><circle class=\"button-primary-circle\" cx=\"16\" cy=\"16\" r=\"16\"\/><path d=\"M8 16.956h12.604l-3.844 4.106 1.252 1.338L24 16l-5.988-6.4-1.252 1.338 3.844 4.106H8v1.912z\" class=\"color-spacesuit-white\"\/><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"hds-social-share hds-share\" id=\"social-share-popover\">\n<p><span class=\"font-size--x-small\" id=\"copy-to-clipboard\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-detail\/pia23682orig\/<\/span><button class=\"usa-button usa-button--unstyled\" id=\"copy-url\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Copy URL to clipboard&gt;<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<p>\t<span id=\"alert-label\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Download<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewbox=\"0 0 30 30\" style=\"enable-background:new 0 0 30 30;\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><g><polygon fill=\"#fff\" points=\"27,21 27,25.5 3,25.5 3,21 0,21 0,28.6 2.5,28.6 3,28.6 27,28.6 30,28.6 30,25.5 30,21 \"\/><polygon fill=\"#fff\" points=\"24.6,13.5 22.6,11.6 16.4,17.4 16.4,1.4 13.6,1.4 13.6,17.3 7.5,11.5 5.4,13.5 15,22.5 \"\/><\/g><\/svg><button class=\"usa-button hds-button hds-button-share\" id=\"social-share-button\"><span>Share<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewbox=\"0 0 30 30\" style=\"enable-background:new 0 0 30 30;\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><g><path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M24.8,0c2.2,0.1,4,1.6,4.4,3.7c0.5,2.5-1.2,4.9-3.8,5.3c-1.4,0.2-2.6-0.2-3.6-1.1c-0.1-0.1-0.1,0-0.2,0 c-1.1,0.6-2.1,1.2-3.2,1.7c-2.1,1.1-4.2,2.2-6.2,3.4c-0.8,0.4-1.6,0.8-2.4,1.3c-0.1,0.1-0.1,0.1-0.1,0.2c0,0.4,0,0.7,0,1.1 c0,0.1,0,0.2,0.1,0.2c1.4,0.7,2.7,1.5,4.1,2.2c1.7,0.9,3.4,1.8,5.1,2.7c0.9,0.5,1.7,0.9,2.5,1.4c0.1,0.1,0.2,0.1,0.3,0 c1-0.8,2.2-1.2,3.4-1c2,0.2,3.6,1.8,3.9,3.7c0.4,2.5-1.2,4.8-3.7,5.2c-2.4,0.4-4.8-1.3-5.2-3.7c-0.1-0.4-0.1-0.9,0-1.3 c0-0.1,0-0.1-0.1-0.2c-1.4-0.7-2.7-1.5-4.1-2.2c-1.5-0.8-3-1.6-4.4-2.4c-1.1-0.6-2.2-1.2-3.3-1.8c-0.1,0-0.1,0-0.2,0 c-0.9,0.8-2,1.1-3.2,1.1c-2.1-0.1-3.8-1.7-4.2-3.7C0.4,13.3,2,11,4.5,10.6c1.4-0.2,2.6,0.1,3.7,1c0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.2,0 c2.4-1.3,4.9-2.6,7.3-3.9c1.5-0.8,3-1.6,4.5-2.4c0.1,0,0.1-0.1,0.1-0.2c-0.3-2.3,1.2-4.5,3.5-5C24.1,0.1,24.5,0,24.8,0z\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-detail\/pia23682orig\/?rand=771643\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This March 4, 2020, image shows Deep Space Station 43, a 70-meter-wide (230-feet-wide) radio antenna at NASA\u2019s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia. 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