Telescope Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:context:telescope:goldstone.dss13_34m::1.1
NAME DSS-13 34-m Radio Telescope
DESCRIPTION This fully steerable telescope is a research and development radio/radar antenna that is part of the NASA Deep Space Network. It was first operational in 1962 with a 26-m aperture and was named "Venus Station" to commemorate the first radar detection of Venus by radar facilities at Goldstone in 1961; the 26-m antenna was decommissioned in 1991. A 34-m beam waveguide (BWG) antenna was completed that year to facilitate development work at higher frequencies. DSS-13 has been used occasionally in conjunction with the Goldstone Solar System Radar for radar interferometry. Antenna coordinates were converted from Table 5 in module 301 (revision L) of the DSN Telecommunications Link Design Handbook (DSN document 810-005) and apply to the 34-m BWG antenna as used since 1991.
FACILITY Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
APERTURE 34.0
LONGITUDE 243.20554
LATITUDE 35.247166
ALTITUDE
COORIDINATE SOURCE WGS 84 Ellipsoid
INVESTIGATION(S)
INSTRUMENT(S) DSS-13 X-band Goldstone Solar System Radar Receiver