Under contract to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology manages and operates the ground facilities required to support unmanned spacecraft in missions to the moon, the planets, and beyond. A worldwide network of tracking stations, known as the Deep Space Network (DSN), was established to communicate with spacecraft. The Mission Control and Computing Center at JPL houses the mission control personnel and the computer facilities that command and control spacecraft in flight. Communications between the MCCC and the tracking stations, as well as communications among the stations, are the responsibility of the DSN Ground Communications Facility, which connects all parts of the ground system with telephone, teletype, and high-speed data lines. The operation of the ground system is outlined, and the various missions which were successfully supported are described. (Author)


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    Title :

    Space Flight Operations


    Publication date :

    1973


    Size :

    13 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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