Telescope Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:context:telescope:canberra.dss43_64m::1.1
NAME DSS-43 64-m Radio Telescope
DESCRIPTION This fully steerable telescope is a parabolic reflector radio antenna that is part of the NASA Deep Space Network. It was first operational in 1972 with a 64-m aperture. The aperture was extended to 70-m in 1987 to support the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune. The 64-m antenna could receive at frequencies between about 1.6 and 8.6 GHz in left-circular polarization (LCP); over 2.0-8.6 GHz it could receive simultaneously in RCP. It could transmit up to 100 kW at 2.1 GHz (S-band) and up to 20 kW at 7.1 GHz (X-band). Antenna coordinates were converted from Table 5 in module 301 (revision L) of the DSN Telecommunications Link Design Handbook (DSN document 810-005). 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.
FACILITY Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex
APERTURE 64.0
LONGITUDE 148.98126
LATITUDE -35.402424
ALTITUDE
COORIDINATE SOURCE WGS 84 Ellipsoid
INVESTIGATION(S)
INSTRUMENT(S) NASA Deep Space Network Radio Science