In Spain, King Felipe has just inaugurated the new NASA antenna, in Robledo de Chavela, near Madrid, during a visit to the communication complex which has five antennas, including four of 34 meters and a giant of 70 meters, reported the electronic newspaper histoireroyales.fr.
NASA continues its expansion by commissioning a new long-range antenna, the “Deep Space Antenna”, in addition to the four that are already fully operational.
El Rey, at the NASA Deep Space Communications Complex in Madrid for the inauguration of the new Deep Space Station 53 antenna.
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“NASA wants to have the essential ground infrastructure to ensure the smooth running of the manned missions of its Artemis program, which, from the middle of this decade, will bring American, European and Japanese astronauts back to the Moon. And later they will go to Mars, which will happen at the earliest in the late 30s of the current century,” according to Atalayar.
Upon his arrival at NASA’s Deep Space Communications Complex, King Felipe was received by Secretary of Defense Esperanza Casteleiro, US Ambassador to Spain Julissa Reynoso and Mayor of Robledo de Chavela, Fernando Casado.
A presentation made by the director of the MDSCC during which he exposed the various NASA missions which will be monitored thanks to the new antenna, according to the same source.
During the inauguration of the new DSS-53 antenna, the King visited the operations room of the Deep Space Communications Complex and held a meeting with authorities and members of NASA.
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As a reminder, the construction of the new antenna, equipped with a dish 34 meters in diameter, began in 2017.
Of note, current antennas are limited to frequency bands in which “they can receive and transmit, thus limiting them to communicate with specific spacecraft,” it is claimed.
The new DSS-53 antenna is the first that will be able to communicate in the entire range of communication frequencies of the Deep Space Network, this means that “DSS-53 is an all-terrain antenna since, in addition to being able to communicate with all DSN missions, it can also be used as a support for other antennas of the Madrid Complex”, adds the same source.
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