Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC)

About Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC)

NASA's Deep Space Network - DSN - is an international network of antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the Solar System and the universe. The Network also supports some selected Earth-orbiting science missions.

The DSN consists of three deep-space communications facilities placed approximately 120 degrees apart around the world: near Canberra, Australia; Goldstone, in California's Mojave Desert; and near Madrid, Spain. This strategic placement permits constant observation of spacecraft as the Earth rotates, and helps to make the DSN the largest and most sensitive scientific telecommunications system in the world.

http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/