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... from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , which operates for NASA the Deep Space Network antennas at Goldstone. NASA and the Department of Defense had been at odds over the Mojave desert airspace ... the target. However, on July 22, the B-1 bomber that had previously buzzed the Goldstone station flew with its chase plane low over the heads of station technicians to check ... planes from the Georgia air force base had interfered "no fewer than 60 times" with Goldstone radio links to its space vehicles. Last Oct. a fighter pilot had "accidentally" turned on ...

... in Astrophysics, Rutgers University ''MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-158 NASA HOSTS FIRST SOCIAL MEDIA EVENT AT GOLDSTONE DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS COMPLEX'' WASHINGTON -- Sixty-five of NASA's social media followers will have ... have an opportunity to speak with scientists, engineers and other team members from NASA and Goldstone. They also will interact with fellow NASA social media followers, space enthusiasts and members of ...

... the next lunar spacecraft's communications with earth. The system was in test operation, linking Goldstone Tracking Station with Jet Propulsion Laboratory , 164 mi. away. For the next lunar probe, as ... sub- sequent lunar and planetary probes, data obtained by the spacecraft would be sent through Goldstone to JPL for computer analysis; commands to the spacecraft would be sent from JPL through ...

... tectonically active as Mars, and possibly as active as the earth, researchers at JPL 's Goldstone tracking station announced. As reported in Science magazine, new high resolution maps from 2 different ... extensional tectonic activity" on Venus. Evidence of a fault movement seemed to appear in another Goldstone map showing a long arc-shaped mountain range crossed and bowed by another linear feature ...

... -foot) tracking antennas operated by the Deep Space Network at Canberra (Australia), Madrid (Spain), and Goldstone (California), because of reductions in the agency's budget. The stations would operate the 64 ... by government agencies of those countries, which would reduce staff by reassignment and attrition; the Goldstone station was operated by Bendix Field Engineering Corporation, which would also reduce staff by reassignment ...

... 's instruments. High-density electron ionosphere was not de­tected. Radar observation on Venus from Goldstone Tracking Station established Venus' rotation rate as 230, plus or minus 40-50 days, retrograde ... ) ; to determine precise locations of tracking stations on earth-specifically, to calculate exact location of Goldstone Tracking Station to within 20 yards, calculated to within 100 yards before MARINER II mis ...

... at speed of light, signals took 11 min. to make trip from Goldstone to Mercury and back to Goldstone. Preliminary analysis of echo patterns indi­cated Mercury has rougher surface than Venus ...

... its longitudinal axis, which would be pointed at the sun. The 100-kw. transmitter at Goldstone tracking station would send the necessary commands to MARINER IV , In the latter plan, use of the 210-ft. antenna, expected to become operational at Goldstone in January 1966, could extend reception of intelligible telemetry signals to as long as six ...

... the cruise phase of the MARINER IV mission. The precise operation of the facilities at Goldstone and the control center at Pasadena in support of the Ranger missions was essential to ... of 191 million miles between network stations and the spacecraft. . . . On January 4, 1966, the Goldstone facility received a signal from the MARINER IV spacecraft over a distance of 216 million ...

... 's largest and most sensitive automatic space tracking and telemetry antennas was officially dedicated at Goldstone, Calif. Newest facility in NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN), 210 ft. dish antenna was ... ). (DOD Release 356-66). NASA's 210-ft.-diameter Deep Space Network antenna, dedicated at Goldstone, Calif. April 1966 April Apr 1 1966 1 Apr 2 1966 2 Apr 3 1966 ...

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