NASA/JPL-Caltech
Ribbon-Reducing Occasion for NASA Deep Area Community’s Deep Area Station 23
Description
Management from NASA Headquarters, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Deep Area Community (DSN) stand in entrance of the lately accomplished Deep Area Station 23 antenna on the Deep Area Community’s Goldstone complicated close to Barstow, California, on Aug. 25, 2026.
From left: Germaine Aziz (mission supervisor, DSN Aperture Enhancement Venture, JPL); Bradford Arnold (supervisor, Telecom Packages & Oversight, JPL); Keyur Patel (affiliate lab director for Flight Initiatives & Mission Success, JPL); Wanda Peters (deputy affiliate administrator, Analysis and Expertise Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters); Jimmy Kenyon (affiliate administrator, RTMD, NASA Headquarters); John McCullough (appearing director, Area Communications and Navigation Program, NASA Headquarters); Gregory Heckler (deputy program supervisor for functionality improvement, SCaN, NASA Headquarters); William Marinelli (improvement supervisor, SCaN, NASA Headquarters), Michael Levesque (mission supervisor, DSN, JPL); and Frank Kaufholod (mission supervisor, NASA Glenn Analysis Heart).
They gathered on the lately accomplished DSS-23 antenna for a ceremonial ribbon reducing on Aug. 25, 2026. It is the most recent antenna to be added as a part of the DSN’s Aperture Enhancement Venture, which started in 2009 to improve and broaden the community by including six new 34-meter (114-foot) multifrequency beam-waveguide antennas. These versatile Deep Space Network dishes can improve many missions working over totally different radio frequencies.
The DSN permits missions to trace, ship instructions to, and obtain scientific information from faraway spacecraft. It’s managed by JPL, a division of Caltech, in Southern California for SCaN, which is positioned at NASA Headquarters inside RTMD.
