NASA Deep Space Network

View from the Earth's north pole, showing the field of view of the main DSN antenna locations. Once a mission gets more than 30,000 km from earth, it is always in view of at least one of the stations.

Deep Space Network (DSN) Amerika adalah jaringan di seluruh dunia dari antena besar dan fasilitas komunikasi, yang terletak di Amerika Serikat (California), Spanyol (Madrid), dan Australia (Canberra), yang mendukung misi pesawat ruang angkasa antar planet.

Program ini juga melakukan observasi radio dan radar astronomi untuk eksplorasi tata surya dan alam semesta, dan mendukung misi orbit Bumi pilihan. DSN merupakan bagian dari NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Jaringan yang sama dijalankan oleh Eropa, Rusia, Cina, India, dan Jepang.

Referensi

• NASA/Caltech JPL DSN – official site.
• Basics of Space Flight – Chapter 18. Deep Space Network
• Deep Space Communications and Navigation Series – a series of books published by Wiley detailing specifics on the Deep Space Network, JPL's site on DESCANSO, Wiley's Site
• Douglas J. Mudgway, Big Dish: Building America's Deep Space Connection to the Planets, University of Florida Press, 2005 ISBN 0-8130-2805-1.
• (PDF) April 2006 GAO report NASA's Deep Space Network: Current Management Structure Is Not Conducive to Effectively Matching Resources with Future Requirements
• An Early NASA Pioneer Still on the Job in Deep Space
• ESA and NASA extend ties with major new cross-support agreement, on ESA Spacecraft Operations site; retrieved October 19, 2007