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Each day the antennas are directed to receive or transmit data
to any number of robotic spacecraft exploring our Solar System
and beyond. This schedule is worked out months and sometimes
years in advance by the mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, California USA.
At various times in the schedule,
time is set aside for antenna calibration, maintenance, or engineering
development tasks. Time is also set aside for radio astronomy
projects, and mission training simulations.
Below is the general antenna
tracking schedule for this week, showing some of the spacecraft
being tracked each day.
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DSS-34 |
DSS-43 |
DSS-45 |
DSS-46 |
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MAY 2008 |
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Thu 1. |
VGR2/ACE/POLR
PHX/CHDR |
STF/MRO/MarsO
NHPC |
GTL/STA
MER-Spirit/VGR2 |
POLR/GTL
SOHO/POLR |
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Fri 2. |
VGR2/ACE/GTL
DAWN/MER-Spirit |
NHPC/GTL/VGR2
PHX/MAP |
SDU/POLR
MarsO/MRO/VGR2 |
POLR/SOHO
POLR |
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Sat 3. |
VGR2/DIF/WIND
PHX/MER-Spirit |
VGR1/MSGR
STF/PHX/VGR1 |
VGR2/STA/POLR
MarsO/MRO/VGR2 |
POLR/SOHO
POLR/GTL |
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Sun 4. |
CLU4/GTL
WIND/STB |
CLU3/GBRA
MarsO/MRO/MAP |
CLU2/VGR2
PHX |
CLU1/POLR/ACE
SOHO/POLR/GTL |
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Mon 5. |
PHX/NHPC |
GBRA/VGR2
STB/STF |
VGR2/MarsO
MRO |
GTL/SOHO/GTL |
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Tue 6. |
DIF/MarsO/MRO
MER-Spirit |
Maintenance |
VGR2/SDU/VGR2
STB/PHX/VGR2 |
GTL/ACE
SOHO/GTL |
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Wed 7. |
MSGR/WIND/MarsO
MRO/MER-Spirit |
VGR2/PHX
MAP |
SGP |
GTL/CHDR |
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Thu 8. |
VGR2/PHX |
VGR2/SOHO
STB/STF |
MarsO/MRO |
SOHO/ACE |
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Fri 9. |
NHPC/STA/WIND
DAWN/STB |
CLU1/MAP/SOHO
MarsO/MRO/STF |
CLU2/SDU/VGR2
PHX |
CLU4/SOHO
GTL |
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Sat 10. |
VGR2/WIND
STB |
GBRA/VGR2
marsO/MRO/STF |
VGR2/GTL/SOHO
PHX |
GTL/SOHO
ACE/GTL |
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Sun 11. |
MER-Opportunity
STB |
GBRA/SOHO
PHX/VGR1 |
VGR2/MarsO
MRO |
GTL/SOHO
GTL |
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Mon 12. |
CLU4/MRO |
MAP/CLU2/VGR2
MarsO/MRO |
VGR2/CLU1
SOHO/PHX |
GTL/CLU3
SOHO/GTL |
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Tue 13. |
VGR2/PHX
CLU1 |
VGR1/GTL/VGR2
MRO/CLU2 |
VGR2/NHPC
SOHO/MarsO/CLU4 |
SOHO/ACE
GTL/CLU3 |
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Wed 14. |
VGR2/SOHO/STB |
MAP/GBRA
PHX/VGR1 |
VGR1/STA
MRO/MarsO |
Maintenance |
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Thu 15. |
SDU/MarsO
MRO/NHPC |
STA/SOHO
PHX/VGR2 |
VGR2/MRO |
GTL/CHDR
SOHO/ACE |
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Fri 16. |
NHPC/GTL/WIND
CLU2/MRO |
VGR2/SOHO
PHX/MAP |
VGR1/VGR2
MArsO/VGR2 |
GTL/SOHO
CLU3/CLU4 |
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Sat 17. |
CLU2/SOHO
MarsO |
VGR2/CLU1/MSGR
STF/MRO/VGR1 |
VGR1/CLU3/VGR2
PHX/VGR2 |
CLU4/GTL/ACE |
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Sun 18. |
CLU4/GTL/SOHO
MER-Opp'ty/STB |
CLU3/SDU/GTL
PHX/MAP |
CLU2/VGR2
MarsO/MRO |
CLU1 |
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+ ACE - Advanced
..Composition Explorer |
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+ Cass - Cassini |
+ CHDR - Chandra X-ray
..Telescope |
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+ Clu - Cluster 1-2-3-4 |
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+ DAWN - Asteroid Mission |
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+ DIF - Deep Impact |
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+ Gal - Galileo(mission end) |
+ GBRA - Ground-Based
..Radio Astronomy |
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+ GTL
- Geotail |
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+ Gen - Genesis |
+ GOES - Geostationary
...Operational Environmental
...Satellite |
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+ GPB - Gravity Probe B |
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+ HST- Hubble Telescope |
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+ IMAG- IMAGE |
+ MAP
- Microwave Anistropy
...Probe |
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+ MarsO - Mars Odyssey |
+ MER - Mars Rovers
...Spirit(2) Opportunity(1) |
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+ MSGR - MESSENGER |
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+ MEX - Mars Express |
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+ MGS - Mars Global ..Surveyor |
+ MRO - Mars Reconaissance
...Orbiter |
+ MSPA - Multiple Spacecraft
...Per Aperture Testing |
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+ MUSC - Asteroid sample |
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+ NHPC - Pluto mission |
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+ NOAA - Earth observation |
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+ PHX - Phoenix Mars'08 |
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+ POLR - Polar |
+ RFC - Radio Frequency
..Cataloguing |
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+ RSAT - Radar Satellite |
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+ ROSE - Rosetta |
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+ SDU - Stardust |
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+ SELE
- Moon Mission |
+ SGP - Space Geodesy
..Project |
+ SOHO - Solar &
..Heliospheric Observatory |
+ ST A/B - STEREO A & B
...3D Sun Imaging |
+ STF - Space Infrared
..Telescope Facility (Spitzer) |
+ TDRS - Tracking & Data
..Relay Satellite |
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+ TERRA - Earth observation |
+ TEP - Total Ozone
...Mapping Spectrometer |
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+ ULYS - Ulysses |
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+ VEX - Venus Express |
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+ VGR1 - Voyager 1 |
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+ VGR2 - Voyager 2 |
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+ WIND - Solar Wind |
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