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Each day the antennas are
directed to receive or transmit data to any number of robotic
spacecraft exploring our Solar System and beyond. This schedule
is worked out months and sometimes years in advance by the mission
controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
USA.
At various times in the schedule,
time is set aside for antenna calibration, maintenance, or engineering
development tasks. Time is also set aside for radio astronomy
projects and mission training simulations.
Below is the general antenna
tracking schedule for this week, showing some of the spacecraft
being tracked each day.
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DSS-34 (34-metre) |
DSS-43 (70-metre) |
DSS-45 (34-metre) |
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Sat 13. |
Maintenance
Feb-April 2010 |
VGR1/GTL/GBRA
MRO/MarsO |
MER-Spirit/VGR2
SOHO/THB/MRO/MarsO |
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Sun 14. |
Maintenance
Feb-April 2010 |
CAS/VGR2
CLU1/MarsO/MRO |
MER-Spirit/VGR2/CLU2
GTL/SOHO/ACE/CLU4 |
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Mon 15. |
Maintenance
Feb-April 2010 |
MER-Spirit/MAP/VGR2
CLU2/GBRA |
CAS/GTL/SOHO
ACE/CLU1/THB |
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Tue 16. |
Maintenance
Feb-April 2010 |
VGR2/MarsO/MRO
CAS |
CAS/NHPC/SOHO
VGR2/MRO/MarsO |
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Wed 17. |
Maintenance
Feb-April 2010 |
CAS/CLU1/GTL
VGR2/MarsO/MRO |
VGR2/CLU2
SOHO/MarsO |
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Thu 18. |
Maintenance
Feb-April 2010 |
NHPC/GTL/CLU4
STB/MAP |
VGR2/ACE
MRO/MarsO |
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Fri 19. |
Maintenance
Feb-April 2010 |
VGR2/CLU1
MarsO/MRO |
GTL/STA/GTL
CLU2/SOHO/THB/CAS |
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Sat 20. |
Maintenance
Feb-April 2010 |
MAP/VGR2/CLU1
MarsO/MRO |
GTL/WIND
CLU4/KEPL |
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Sun 21. |
Maintenance
Feb-April 2010 |
MAP/VGR1/VGR1
MarsO/MRO |
VGR2/SOHO
ACE/KEPL |
 Deep Space Station 46 (DSS46)
The 26-metre antenna ended 42 years of service in August 2009.
DSS46 will remain at the Deep Space Complex. |
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+ ACE - Advanced
..Composition Explorer |
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+ Cass - Cassini |
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+ CH1
- Chandrayann-1 |
+ CHDR - Chandra X-ray
..Telescope |
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+ Clu - Cluster 1-2-3-4 |
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+ DAWN - Asteroid Mission |
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+ DIF - Deep Impact |
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+ Gal - Galileo(mission end) |
+ GBRA - Ground-Based
..Radio Astronomy |
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+ GTL
- Geotail |
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+ Gen - Genesis |
+ GOES - Geostationary
...Operational Environmental
...Satellite |
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+ GPB - Gravity Probe B |
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+ HST- Hubble Telescope |
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+ IMAG- IMAGE |
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+ LRO-
Lunar Recon. Orbiter |
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+ LCRO
- LCROSS |
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+ KEPL-
KeplerTelescope |
+ MAP
- Microwave Anistropy
...Probe |
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+ MarsO - Mars Odyssey |
+ MER - Mars Rovers
...Spirit(2) Opportunity(1) |
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+ MSGR - MESSENGER |
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+ MEX - Mars Express |
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+ MGS - Global Surveyor |
+ MRO - Mars Reconaissance
...Orbiter |
+ MSPA - Multiple Spacecraft
...Per Aperture Testing |
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+ MUSC - Asteroid sample |
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+ NHPC - Pluto mission |
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+ NOAA - Earth observation |
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+ PHX - Phoenix Mars'08 |
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+ POLR - Polar |
+ RFC - Radio Frequency
..Cataloguing |
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+ RSAT - Radar Satellite |
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+ ROSE - Rosetta |
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+ SDU - Stardust |
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+ SELE
- Moon Mission |
+ SGP - Space Geodesy
..Project |
+ SOHO - Solar &
..Heliospheric Observatory |
+ ST A/B - STEREO A & B
...3D Sun Imaging |
+ STF - Space Infrared
..Telescope Facility (Spitzer) |
+ TDRS - Tracking & Data
..Relay Satellite |
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+ TERRA - Earth observation |
+ TEP - Total Ozone
...Mapping Spectrometer |
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+ TH
A-B-C-D-E - Themis |
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+ VEX - Venus Express |
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+ VGR1 - Voyager 1 |
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+ VGR2 - Voyager 2 |
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+ WIND - Solar Wind |
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