NASA’s Deep Space Network to Add New Dish in Australia to Improve Communications with Spacecraft Written 11 April 2025
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DSS43 is a 230-feet-wide radio antenna at the Deep Space Network’s Canberra facility in Australia, and is the only antenna that can send commands to the Voyager 2 spacecraft. | Credit: NASA
SPACE reports that NASA’s Deep Space Network is getting a new dish. This one will be at the DSN facility in Canberra, Australia. “The new dish, Deep Space Station 33, will be a 112-foot-wide (34 meters) multifrequency beam-waveguide antenna (BWG), according to the NASA statement.”
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