urn:nasa:pds:context:telescope:canberra.dss46_26m 1.0 1.13.0.0 Product_Context 2020-07-19 1.0 Original context file for the DSS-46 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 Communication Complex. 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. 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 46" for this antenna. 26 148.983079 -35.405015 677.510 Geodetic coordinates derived using an ellipsoid with semi-major axis a = 6378136.3 m and flattening f = 298.257 (see DSN document 810-005, Module 301 issued 2001-01-15, Table 5 and associated text). These coordinates are valid for the years 1983-2009. DSS-46 was used primarily for communication with Earth orbiting spacecraft and for initial acquisition of any spacecraft immediately after launch. It partnered with DSS-16 (at Goldstone, CA) and DSS-66 (near Madrid, Spain) in a 26-m subnet for this purpose. DSS-46 could transmit 50-2000 W at 2.1 GHz (S-band). It could receive right- and left-circularly polarized signals simultaneously at both 2.3 GHz and 8.4 GHz; its receiver could combine the signals to obtain a rotatable linear polization. The antenna was constructed in 1965 at the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Australia to support the Apollo missions. On 21 July 1969 (Australian time) the antenna received and relayed to the world the first television images of Neil Armstrong's historic first steps on the Moon. The Honeysuckle Creek station was converted for use in NASA's Deep Space Network after the end of the Apollo and Skylab programs, with the antenna given the new designation DSS-44. The antenna supported many missions, including those to Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the Sun, until the closure of the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in December 1981. In 1983 the antenna was moved to its current location at Tidbinbilla, re-designated DSS-46 and modified to expand its capabilities for early launch acquisition (tracking a spacecraft after it has launched from Earth). The antenna continued to support NASA and international missions studying the Sun, Earth, Moon and the planets in our solar system until its retirement from deep space service in December 2009. 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.