The Listening Room

Earth is talking to 9 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

DSS26

Juno

X-band down at 26 kb/s · 51.8 light-minutes away

DSS23

Lucy

X-band down at 20 kb/s · 44.9 light-minutes away

DSS24

SOHO

S-band down at 55 kb/s

DSS25

Europa Clipper

in session

Parked: DSS14 (engineering upgrades)

MAD

Madrid

Robledo de Chavela, Spain

DSS53

James Webb Space Telescope

K-band down at 28.0 Mb/s · 4.5 light-seconds away

DSS54

LRO

K-band down at 28.6 Mb/s · 1.3 light-seconds away

DSS56

Danuri

X-band down at 8.5 Mb/s · 1.3 light-seconds away

Parked: DSS55 (engineering upgrades) · DSS63 (engineering upgrades) · DSS65 (engineering upgrades)

CAN

Canberra

Tidbinbilla, Australia

DSS43

Psyche

X-band down at 250 b/s

DSS34

ACE

in session

Parked: DSS36 (engineering upgrades) · DSS35 (antenna preventative maintenance)

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