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Pioneer Station (DSS-11), a 26 meter polar mounted antenna, was the first deep space antenna to be constructed at Goldstone. Completed in December 1958, in time to support the Pioneer 3 mission, DSS-11 became the prototype antenna for the Deep Space Network (DSN) and went on to track a variety of NASA spacecraft including all Pioneers, the Echo balloons, and the Ranger, Lunar Orbiter, Surveyor, Apollo, Helios, Mariner, Viking, and Voyager spacecraft. A Manned Space Flight wing was built at the Pioneer site to support the manned space flights of the Apollo program. DSS-11 was officially mothballed in 1981 and was declared a National Historic Monument as the first deep space antenna in the DSN in 1985. Antenna coordinates are approximate; they were interpolated from coordinates for DSS-13 and DSS-14 in Table 5 of module 301 (revision L) of the DSN Telecommunications Link Design Handbook (DSN document 810-005) using the map at https://www.gdscc.nasa.gov/?page_id=37
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