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5 unusual facts about Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex


6075 Zajtsev

Zaitsev is also responsible for initiating the world's first intercontinental radar astronomy experiment, 70-m dish of the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex to 70-m dish of the EPR observations of 6489 Golevka in June 1995.

Deep Space Communications Complex

The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex located about 35 miles north of BarstowCalifornia on the Fort Irwin Military Reservation

Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex

Goldstone antennas have also been used as sensitive radio telescopes for such scientific investigations as mapping quasars and other celestial radio sources; radar mapping planets, the Moon, comets and asteroids; spotting comets and asteroids with the potential to strike Earth; and the search for ultra-high energy neutrino interactions in the moon by using large-aperture radio antennas.

INTEGRAL

It is controlled from ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany, ESA's control centre, through ground stations in Belgium (Redu) and California (Goldstone).

Timeline of Rosetta spacecraft

Rosetta restored communications with ESA's Operations Centre trough NASA’s Goldstone ground station at 18:17 CET.



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