urn:nasa:pds:context:telescope:goldstone.dss16_26m 1.0 1.13.0.0 Product_Context 2020-07-19 1.0 Original context file for the DSS-16 antenna at Goldstone. 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.goldstone telescope_to_facility This context product provides more information on the Goldstone Deep Space Communications 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.gdscc.nasa.gov/?page_id=37 A brief history of the NASA Deep Space Network with photographs. The "1960s" tab discusses DSS-16. 26 243.126352 35.341540 944.711 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). This 26-meter (85-ft.) diameter antenna was originally designed as part of the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN), managed by Goddard Space Flight Center. At the completion of the Apollo missions, DSS-16 was designated a part of the Satellite Tracking and Data Network (STDN) and used for tracking Earth orbiting satellites and for initial acquisition of any spacecraft immediately after launch. It partnered with DSS-46 (near Canberra, Australia) and DSS-66 (near Madrid, Spain) in a 26-m subnet for this purpose. In the 1990s it provided communications with NASA's Space Shuttle. DSS-16 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 completed in 1966 and remained part of NASA's tracking networks until the mid-2000s.