Interplanetary Network Directorate

Introduction to the DSN and its Operations

Al Bhanji DSN Project Manager

Wayne Sible DSN Deputy Project Manager

Jeff Berner DSN Chief Engineer

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• DSN Overview • The Future • Short Video on the “Day in the life of the DSN”

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• NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) was established in December 1963 (50 years ago!) to provide a communications infrastructure for all of NASA’s robotic missions beyond geostationary orbit. It is the largest and most sensitive scientific telecommunication system in the world. Some of the missions supported includes: – FOR NASA: Surveyor, Ranger, Mariner, Pioneer, Viking, Voyager, , , , Cassini, , MER, MGS, Mars Odyssey, Spitzer, , MRO, , , MSL, , – FOR OTHER SPACE AGENCIES: , SOHO, Planet-C, , , MOM • Besides DSN’s prime responsibility of telecommunications for NASA and international Missions, it also supports scientific investigations through , radio science, and radar activities • The Deep Space Network Project Office at JPL handles programmatic management of the DSN and is also responsible for the engineering and operations of the DSN

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DSS-24 DSS-25 DSS-26 DSS-27 DSS-54 DSSDSS-55-55 DSS-34 DSS-35 34m (BWG-1) 34m (BWG-2) 34m (BWG-3) 34m (HSB) 34m (BWG-1) 34m34m (BWG (BWG-2)-2) 34m (BWG-1) 34m (BWG-2)

DSS-63 DSS-43 70m 70m

DSS-14 Signal Processing Signal Processing Signal Processing 70m Center SPC-10 Center SPC-60 Center SPC-40 DSS-36 34m (BWG-3) DSS-13 34m (**R&D) DSS-45 GPS DSS-15 GPS DSS-65 GPS 34m HEF 34m (HEF) 34m (HEF) Goldstone, , , CTT-22 Compatibility Test Trailer

MIL-71 KSC Launch Support Facility

JPL, Monrovia Network Operations JPL, Pasadena Control Center (NOCC), Deep Space Operations DTF-21 Center (DSOC)

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• NASA/JPL depends upon international partnerships and contracts to successfully operate the DSN worldwide. – Goldstone and Pasadena Operations are contracted to ITT Exelis – Canberra is managed by the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) – Madrid is managed by the Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA) who in turn contract to Ingeniería de Sistemas para la Defensa de España (ISDEFE)

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Uplink (Command): 20KW Transmitters; S- Collect multiple data types used for orbit Radar: Bouncing a radio signal off a celestial band (2 GHz) and X-band (8 GHz); Data determination: body and processing the received reflected Rates from 10 bps to 10 Kbps •Range signal •Doppler Radio Science: Observations of changes in a Downlink (): S-band (2 GHz), X- •Angles spacecraft radio signal as it passes through a band (8 GHz), Ka-band (26 or 32 GHz); Data •Delta-DOR planetary atmosphere Rates from 10 bps to 6.6 Mbps •Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Radio Astronomy: Observations of naturally occurring radio emissions This document has been reviewed and determined not to contain export controlled technical data AMB- 6 Interplanetary Network Directorate Major Upcoming Mission Events

Jan 2013 June 2013 Jan 2014 June 2014 Jan 2015 June 2015 Jan 2016 June 2016 Jan 2017

Insight DAWN Ceres Arrival Launch -2 Juno Flyby Hayabusa-2 Launch Earth Flyby Juno Orbit Insertion MAVEN MAVEN Mars Planet C VOI Launch Orbit Insertion

MOM MOM Mars Launch Orbit Insertion

MMS-1,2,3,4 LADEE Launch Encounter Launch

ROSETTA Comet Exomars Launch Hibernation Exit Landing

INSPIRE Launch

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What plans and challenges are ahead? Reducing costs: • One operator controlling multiple antennas • Standardized maintenance across the world • Web based data interfaces Improving performance: • Higher data rates for both uplink and downlink • Error correcting coding for the uplink • New error correcting codes for the downlink • New antennas, operated singly or as an array Adding new capabilities: • Higher frequency bands • Wider bandwidth RADAR capability • Optical data downlinks (using RF antenna)

For half a century the DSN has been a cornerstone of deep space scientific achievement and has been an enabler of new technology and capabilities…that has also changed our daily lives on Earth!!!

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A day in the life of DSN….enjoy!!!

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