The 26 meter antenna (Deep Space Station 11) was built in Goldstone, California (in the Mojave Desert) and nicknamed “Pioneer” because of its first transmission with Pioneer 3 in December. Engineers designed the transmitters on the satellites so that they would transmit at 960 MHz which would allow the use of the existing 26 meter design for…
The 26 meter antenna (Deep Space Station 11) was built in Goldstone, California (in the Mojave Desert) and nicknamed “Pioneer” because of its first transmission with Pioneer 3 in December. Engineers designed the transmitters on the satellites so that they would transmit at 960 MHz which would allow the use of the existing 26 meter design for the receive antenna. The antenna was deactivated in 1981, but Goldstone remains one of three sites for the Deep Space Network (DSN).
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