More than 40 Spacecraft Rely on NASA’s Three Deep Space Network Complexes Around the World. Goldstone Added a New Dish in August 2026, Five Years After Network Manager Brad Arnold Warned that Missions Should Expect Less Contact Time because Antenna Expansion Couldn’t Keep Pace with Demand.
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More than 40 spacecraft rely on NASA’s three Deep Space Network complexes around the world. Goldstone added a new dish in August 2026, five years after network manager Brad Arnold warned that missions should expect less contact time because antenna expansion couldn’t keep pace with demand.
DSS-23 began operations on 3 August 2026. Its arrival adds capacity while older antennas, maintenance outages and competing mission requests continue to shape the network’s schedule.
The long-distance spacecraft communication network operated by the US space agency NASA has just received an upgrade.
NASA began the operation of a new 34-metre radio frequency antenna in the Goldstone complex near Barstow, California on August 3. The equipment was named Deep Space Station 23 and performed its first activity while tracking the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The structure expanded the [...]
NASA officially used the latest 34-metre-long plate in the Deep Space Network (DSN) long-range space communications complex located in the Mohawa desert (Goldstone, California) to significantly increase the capacity of the global network, through which the PCO coordinates more than 40 solar system and interstellar continuum research probes. The image source: NASA/JPL-Caltech, via The Post NASA, has deployed a 34-metre antenna to California to co…
NASA launched the DSS-23 antenna in California to expand a network that can no longer serve all deep space missions simultaneously. The expansion seeks to respond to the increase in operations, although the project accumulates delays and costs much higher than anticipated.
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