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comms will switch over from #TDRS to the #DeepSpaceNetwork soon – sending good vibes to [@]nascom1 & my other friends in #DSN spacecraft ops out at the #CDSCC in Tidbinbilla who are about to take the reins 💕 🖖
you can dive into some amazing historical skeets & tweets from [@]nascom1 over at https://bsky.app/profile/nascom1.bsky.social & https://x.com/nascom1
you can see what’s happening on the #DSN Now website, part of #NASA’s #EyesOn visualisation tools
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html
antennas showing “ART2” are currently in direct comms with #ArtemisII & antennas showing “DSN” are mostly^ tasked to #Artemis mission support but not currently communicating with the spacecraft
– antennas with “squiggly lines” going in both directions are both transmitting & receiving data (Tx & Rx)
– antennas with a squiggly line going in one direction is currently either transmitting or receiving data
– antennas with a sine wave line have carrier lock but aren’t transmitting or receiving (not shown)
– details about the comms for the selected antenna are shown in the panel at the bottom of the page
you can see in the attached pic that antennas DSS-54 & DSS-56 at #MDSCC (the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex) are currently communicating with ArtemisII – 54 is both Tx & Rx on S-band & 56 is Rx on S-band and data rates look great
^ I say “mostly” ‘coz “DSN” usually means testing or maintaining – one or two antennas may be undergoing maintenance atm rather than supporting ArtemisII, I don’t have complete visibility of the antenna schedule 💁♀️
note: #DSN uses a “follow the sun” approach for operating antennas, so the antennas at #MDSCC in #Madrid are currently being operated by the ops team at #CDSCC in #Canberra since it’s day time here in #Aus & night time in Spain 🙃
normally there’s only a skeleton maintenance crew on site at the Deep Space Communication Complexes overnight but I expect there are some additional staff on site (or on call) just in case for such important mission support
speaking of #NASA’s #EyesOn The Solar System visualisations… you can see exactly where #ArtemisII is at https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_artemis_2
the visualisation uses almost^ real-time telemetry from spacecraft so you’re seeing where it is right now 🛰️ 👀
^ plus any delays due to the speed of light (distance to the spacecraft), data processing, & network connectivity 😜
