50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2
Cars That Think
APRIL 18, 2024
A new X-band cone was installed. When the space agency sent Curiosity , a golf cart–size rover, to explore the Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars in 2011, DSS-43 tracked Curiosity as it made its nail-biting seven-minute descent into Mars’s atmosphere. The dish’s pointing accuracy also was tested and recertified.
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