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Website: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/services/networks/deep_space_network
Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Control_Network
Website: https://celestrak.org/satcat/launchsites.php
Description
Shows the stations of NASA's Deep Space Network: the largest and most sensitive scientific telecommunications system in the world. The Deep Space Network - or DSN - is NASA's international array of giant radio antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions, plus a few that orbit Earth. The DSN also provides radar and radio astronomy observations that improve our understanding of the solar system and the larger universe. The DSN consists of three facilities spaced equidistant from each other - approximately 120 degrees apart in longitude - around the world. These sites are at Goldstone, near Barstow, California; near Madrid, Spain; and near Canberra, Australia. The strategic placement of these sites permits constant communication with spacecraft as our planet rotates - before a distant spacecraft sinks below the horizon at one DSN site, another site can pick up the signal and carry on communicating. Other stations from the United States Air Force Satellite Control Network are also shown, and a range of Satellite and Spacecraft Launch Sites.
This Map Layer is a Vector Layer composed of Points and Labels, so the Style for each of these can be changed as desired by opening the 'Layers Menu', clicking the wanted layer on the left, then clicking the relevant panel controls on the right.
As a guide to what the map-labels refer to, here is a helpful table:
NETWORK SITE_NAME SITE_NOTES LOCATION CNTRY_NAME NASA Deep Space Network Goldstone Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex Barstow, CA USA NASA Deep Space Network Madrid NASA Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex Colmenar del Arroyo, Madrid Spain NASA Deep Space Network Canberra Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex Paddys River ACT Australia NASA Deep Space Network Pasadena Deep Space Operations Center - Jet Propulsion Lab Pasadena, CA USA RTSW Network NICT National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Tokyo Japan RTSW Network KSWC Korean Space Weather Center (KSWC) Jeju South Korea RTSW Network DLR German Aerospace Center Neustrelitz Germany RTSW Network DL0SHF Satellite Station DL0SHF Kiel-Roenne Germany RTSW Network WCDAS NOAA Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station Wallops Island, VA USA RTSW Network SWPC NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (BOU) Boulder, CO USA USAF Satellite Control Network Schriever Schriever Space Force Base Colorado Springs, CO USA USAF Satellite Control Network EOSOF Ellison Onizuka Satellite Operations Facility Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA USA USAF Satellite Control Network REEF Diego Garcia Station (DGS) Diego Garcia British Indian Ocean Territory USAF Satellite Control Network GUAM Guam Tracking Station (GTS) Dededo Guam USAF Satellite Control Network HULA Hawaii Tracking Station (HTS) Kaena Point, Oahu, HI USA USAF Satellite Control Network BOSS New Hampshire Station (NHS) New Boston SFS, NH USA USAF Satellite Control Network LION Telemetry & Command Station (TCS) RAF Oakhanger England USAF Satellite Control Network POGO Thule Tracking Station (TTS) Thule Air Base Greenland NASA Near Space Network Sentosa KSAT Sentosa Satellite Earth Station Woolwich Rd, Singapore Singapore NASA Near Space Network Svalsat Svalsat Satellite Station, Kongsberg Satellite Services Plataberget, Longyearbyen, Svalbard Norway NASA Near Space Network TrollSat KSAT TrollSat, Antarctica, Kongsberg Satellite Services Troll, Queen Maud Land Antarctica NASA Near Space Network SANSA SANSA Space Operations Hartebeeshoek, Krugersdorp South Africa NASA Near Space Network ESTRACK SSC Kiruna, Sweden Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna Sweden NASA Near Space Network SSC Santiago SSC Santiago Satellite Station Colina Chile NASA Near Space Network SSC North Pole SSC Space US North Pole Station North Pole, AK USA NASA Near Space Network SSC Dongara SSC Space US Western Australia Satellite Station Dongara, WA Australia NASA Near Space Network SSC South Point SSC Space US South Point South Point, HI USA NASA Near Space Network NASA ASF NASA Alaska Satellite Facility Fairbanks, AK USA NASA Near Space Network Kennedy NASA Kennedy Uplink Station Cape Canaveral, FL USA NASA Near Space Network Ponce de Leon NASA Ponce de Leon Station New Smyrna Beach, FL USA NASA Near Space Network White Sands NASA White Sands Ground Station Las Cruces, NM USA NASA Near Space Network McMurdo NASA McMurdo Ground Station Arrival Heights, McMurdo Station Antarctica NASA Near Space Network FCDAS Fairbanks Command and Data Acquisition Station Gilmore Creek, AK USA Satellite Launch Site AFETR Air Force Eastern Test Range Florida USA Satellite Launch Site AFWTR Air Force Western Test Range California USA Satellite Launch Site CAS Canaries Airspace Gran Canaria Canary Islands Satellite Launch Site DLS Dombarovskiy Launch Site Yasnensky District, Orenburg Oblast Russia Satellite Launch Site FRGUI Europe's Spaceport Kourou French Guiana Satellite Launch Site HGSTR Hammaguira Space Track Range Bechar Algeria Satellite Launch Site JSC Jiuquan Space Center Alxa League, Inner Mongolia China Satellite Launch Site KODAK Kodiak Launch Complex Alaska USA Satellite Launch Site KSCUT Uchinoura Space Center Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Japan Satellite Launch Site KWAJ US Army (USAKA) Kwajalein Atoll Marshall Islands Satellite Launch Site KYMSC Kapustin Yar Missile and Space Complex Akhtubinsky District, Astrakhan Oblast Russia Satellite Launch Site NSC Naro Space Complex Yenae-ri, Jeollanam-do South Korea Satellite Launch Site PLMSC Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex Plesetsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast Russia Satellite Launch Site RLLB Rocket Lab Launch Base Mahia Peninsula New Zealand Satellite Launch Site SEMLS Semnan Satellite Launch Site Semnan, Semnan Province Iran Satellite Launch Site SMTS Shahrud Missile Test Site Khar Turan National Park, Semnan Province Iran Satellite Launch Site SNMLP San Marco Launch Platform Ngomeni Kenya Satellite Launch Site SRILR Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh India Satellite Launch Site SVOBO Svobodnyy Launch Complex Svobodnensky District, Amur Oblast Russia Satellite Launch Site TAISC Taiyuan Space Center Xinzhou, Shanxi China Satellite Launch Site TANSC Tanegashima Space Center Japan Minamitane, Kagoshima Satellite Launch Site TYMSC Tyuratam Missile and Space Center Karmakshy District Kazakhstan Satellite Launch Site WLPIS Wallops Island Virginia USA Satellite Launch Site WOMRA Woomera Wirraminna, SA Australia Satellite Launch Site WSC Wenchang Satellite Launch Site Wenchang, Hainan China Satellite Launch Site XICLF Xichang Launch Facility Mianning County, Sichuan China Satellite Launch Site YAVNE Palmachim Spaceport Yavne, Central District Israel Satellite Launch Site YUN Yunsong Launch Site Cholsan, North Pyongan North Korea