Ribbon-Cutting Event for NASA Deep Space Network’s Deep Space Station 23

NASA Science reports that the Deep Space Network's newest dish, Deep Space Station twenty-three, got a ceremonial ribbon-cutting at the Goldstone complex in California on August twenty-fifth. The thirty-four-meter antenna is part of a project to add six such dishes, expanding the network's ability to track and communicate with faraway spacecraft. The network, managed by JPL, is essential for sending commands and receiving scientific data from missions across the solar system, and this versatile dish can support many missions operating on different radio frequencies.

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