urn:nasa:pds:context:telescope:canberra.dss42_34m 1.0 1.13.0.0 Product_Context 2020-07-19 1.0 Original context file for the 34-m DSS 42 antenna near Canberra, Australia. urn:nasa:pds:radiosci.documentation:dsn.810-005 instrument_to_document This reference is to a PDS collection containing several versions of the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) Telecommunications Link Design Handbook (Document 810-005). The Handbook is maintained in a modular format to provide interface design data to flight projects using the DSN. Modules are updated as appropriate. Each member product in the PDS collection is the set of modules as they applied at that point in time. Modules include: 001 Handbook Introduction 101 70-m Subnet Telecommunications Interfaces 102 26-m Subnet Telecommunications Interfaces (omitted in 2009 and later versions) 103 34-m HEF Subnet Telecommunications Interfaces 104 34-m BWG Antennas Telecommunications Interfaces 105 Atmospheric and Environmental Effects 106 Solar Corona and Solar Wind Effects 107 Radio Source Catalog 201 Frequency and Channel Assignments 202 34-m and 70-m Doppler 203 Sequential Ranging 205 Command Service 206 Telemetry General Information 207 34-m and 70-m Telemetry Reception 208 Telemetry Data Decoding 209 Open-Loop Radio Science 210 Delta Differrential One-way Ranging 211 Wideband Very Long Baseline Interferometry 214 Pseudonoise and Regenerative Ranging 301 Coverage and Geometry 302 Antenna Positioning 303 Media Calibration 304 Frequency and Timing 305 Test Support 901 Handbook Glossary urn:nasa:pds:context:facility:observatory.dsn telescope_to_facility This context product provides more information on the NASA Deep Space Network as a whole. urn:nasa:pds:context:facility:observatory.canberra telescope_to_facility This context product provides more information on the Canberra Deep Space Communications Compolex. urn:nasa:pds:context:telescope:canberra.dss42_26m context_to_associate This context product provides more information on DSS-42 when its aperture was 26 meters (1964 to early 1980s). urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:dsn.rss telescope_to_instrument This context product provides more information on the commanding, radio tracking, and radio science instrumentation at the telescope. Only information appropriate to years 2000 and earlier would be applicable to DSS 42 operations. DSN/Flight Project Interface Design GEO-10, DSN Coverage and Geometry Rev. E (Initial Issue, 1997-07-15) This document provides DSN station coordinates which are required for spacecraft navigation and location of stations with respect to other points on the Earth's surface. This document is a precursor to Module 301 in DSN document 810-005, the DSN Telecommunication Link Design Handbook, which was issued in its current form (as Rev. E) on 2001-01-15. https://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/Pages/welcome.html An overview of the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex with photographs. Pull down the Antennas menu and select "DSS 42" for this antenna. 34 148.981265 -35.400679 675.356 Geodetic coordinates derived using an ellipsoid with semi-major axis a = 6378136.3 m and flattening f = 298.257 (see Table 5, DSN/Flight Project Interface Design, GEO-10, DSN Coverage and Geometry, Rev. E dated 1997-07-15) Deep Space Station 42 (DSS-42) was the first antenna built at the Tidbinbilla tracking station site near Canberra, Australia. It entered service in mid 1964 and was designed to last 15 years. Its first deep space mission support was for NASA's Mariner 4 spacecraft on its historic first flyby of Mars. Along with other dishes in the Deep Space Network (DSN), it returned the first close up images of the surface of Mars. DSS-42 was originally constructed as a 26-m diameter antenna. To extend its life and increase its capabilities, the dish was extended to 34-m in the early 1980s. DSS-42 provided two-way radio communications with many dozens of robotic deep space spacecraft until its retirement from service in early 2000, well past its original expected design life. Due to some structural weakness and metal fatigue, the antenna was dismantled. The quadrupod and subreflector structure from inside the dish was retained and moved to a location behind the Tidbinbilla Visitor Center where it stands today, along with one of its dish panels. The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex (CDSCC) is managed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science research agency. The CDSCC is at Tidbinbilla, about 35 km southwest of Canberra, ACT.