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December 2013 – Deep Space Network (DSN) Celebrated 50 Year Anniversary

December 2013 - 50th Anniversary Deep Space Network (DSN)
The DSN celebrated 50 years of service to space science and exploration. Over the last 50 years, the Deep Space Network has provided superior communication and tracking services to missions that have captured images from all the planets in our solar system, science information from potential habitable planets, and cosmic phenomenon from light…

The Deep Space Network (DSN) celebrated 50 years of service to space science and exploration. Over the last 50 years, the Deep Space Network has provided superior communication and tracking services to missions that have captured images from all the planets in our solar system, science information from potential habitable planets, and cosmic phenomenon from light years away. Data rates for these tracking and communication services have advanced from about 8.33 bits per second to over 1 megabit per second.

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