NASA’s Deep Space Network to Add New Dish in Australia to Improve Communications with Spacecraft Written 11 April 2025

NASA’s Deep Space Network to Add New Dish in Australia to Improve Communications with Spacecraft

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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