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DSN's Experimental Hybrid Antenna Tracks DSOC's Laser Downlink
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Deep Space Station 13 (DSS-13) at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California – part of the agency's Deep Space Network – is a 34-meter (112-foot) experimental antenna that has been retrofitted with an optical terminal (the boxy instrument below the center of the antenna's dish). Since November 2023, DSS-13 has been tracking the downlink laser of the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment that is aboard NASA's Psyche mission, which launched on Oct.
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Credit lineDSN's Experimental Hybrid Antenna Tracks DSOC's Laser Downlink. NASA/JPL, 2024-02-08. Public domain. ID: PIA26148.
