DSN: Features: Articles: Extended Antenna Outage at Madrid Deep... + View the NASA Portal Articles DSN Brochure GAVRT Image Tutorial How a Real DSN Station Is Built Extended... Antenna Outage at Madrid Deep Space Network Complex August 7, 2006 During a planned downtime for installing upgrades to the 70-meter (230-foot) antenna at the Madrid Deep Space Network... Complex, from May 22 to Oct. 1, engineers detected cracks in a large bearing system of the antenna. The cracks were detected in two bearings in mid-June, which allowed the team...

DSN: Features: Articles: New 34m Beam Wave Guide Antenna in Madrid + View the NASA Portal Articles DSN Brochure GAVRT Image Tutorial How a Real DSN Station Is Built Deep Space... Network Adds a 34m Beam Wave Guide Antenna in Madrid, Spain Preparing for the communication needs of an expected population boom in interplanetary spacecraft, NASA has selected... a builder to add an advanced dish antenna, 34 meters in diameter (112 feet), near Madrid, Spain, one of the three sites of the agency's Deep Space Network. "Crunch Period" - Beginning...

34-meter-diameter + View the NASA Portal Functions 26-meter 34-meter 70-meter Arraying 34-METER ANTENNAS 34-Meter High-Efficiency (HEF) Antenna The 34-meter HEF antenna... incorporates recent advances in antenna design and mechanics. The mount is an azimuth-elevation type and operates in both axes at 0.40 degree/second. The reflector surface is precision...-shaped for maximum signal-gathering capability. 34-Meter Beam Waveguide (BWG) Antennas The design of the 34-meter BWG antenna is based on that of the 34-meter High-Efficiency antenna...

26-meter + View the NASA Portal Functions 26-meter 34-meter 70-meter Arraying 26-METER ANTENNAS The 26-meter (85-ft.) diameter antennas are used for tracking Earth-orbiter... satellite spacecraft, most of which are in orbits between 160 and 1,000 kilometers (100 and 630 miles) above the Earth. The X-Y mount allows the antenna to point low on the horizon... to pick up the fast-moving Earth orbiters as soon as they rise into view. The maximum tracking speed is three degrees per second. The 26-meter antennas were originally built to support...

March 28, 2006 Front view of the 70m antenna at Goldstone, California. Image credit: NASA/JPL Browse version of image "That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind." That... famous communique from Apollo 11 during the historic first-ever moon walk was brought to you by the 64-meter antenna at NASA's Deep Space Network in Goldstone, Calif. The antenna... of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, their rings and their myriad moons, by the Pioneer, Voyager, Galileo and Cassini missions. The antenna has also communicated with NASA's Mars...