The Listening Room

Earth is talking to 11 spacecraft.

NASA’s Deep Space Network, live: three stations a third of the world apart, so nothing out there ever sets for long. Every line below is on the air right now.

GOL

Goldstone

Mojave Desert, California

DSS24

MMS1

in session · 0.4 light-seconds away

DSS23

OSIRIS-APEX

in session · 5.1 light-minutes away

DSS25

ESCB

in session

Parked: DSS14 (engineering upgrades) · DSS26 (engineering sustaining)

MAD

Madrid

Robledo de Chavela, Spain

DSS63

STEREO-A

X-band down at 720 kb/s

DSS56

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

commanding up

DSS56

M01O

in session

DSS56

MEX

X-band down at 210 kb/s

DSS53

M01O

commanding up

DSS54

Psyche

X-band down at 359 kb/s

Parked: DSS65 (antenna calibration) · DSS55 (engineering upgrades)

CAN

Canberra

Tidbinbilla, Australia

DSS43

Europa Clipper

X-band down at 16 kb/s

DSS34

Parker Solar Probe

X-band down at 160 b/s

DSS35

IMAP

X-band down at 714 kb/s

Parked: DSS36 (antenna preventative maintenance)

Live from NASA’s DSN Now feed, refreshed every minute · ▲ commanding up, ▼ receiving down · distances as one-way light time · a code without a name in our list is shown as its code · where the fleet is →