Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex: Difference between revisions

The MDSCC is part of [[NASA]]'s [[Deep Space Network]] run by the [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]].<ref>[http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/ Official site for DSN at JPL] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608040231/http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/ |date=2012-06-08 }}</ref> The facility contributes to the Deep Space Network's mission to provide the vital two-way communications link that tracks and controls interplanetary spacecraft and receives the images and scientific information they collect. The complex is one of three NASA Deep Space Network complexes in the world, located at separations of approximately 120° longitude so that a spacecraft will always be in sight of at least one station; the others are the [[Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex]] located in [[California]], near the city of [[California|Barstow]], and the [[Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex]] in [[Australia]] which is close to the city of [[Australia|Canberra]].

The complex has seven large parabolic antennas, called '''DSS-61''', '''DSS-54''', '''DSS-55''', '''DSS-63''', '''DSS-65''' and '''DSS-66'''.<ref>[http://www.inta.es/doc/grandesinstalaciones/estacionesdeseguimiento/robledo_nasa_gb_.pdf Official INTA site for the MDSCC] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325173824/http://www.inta.es/doc/grandesinstalaciones/estacionesdeseguimiento/robledo_nasa_gb_.pdf |date=2014-03-25 }}</ref>

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140325190134/http://www.isdefe.es/en/sectors-Spacecommunications Official Site at ISDEFE, operator of MDSCC at Robledo]