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A large red crane lowers a cone-shaped frame. There is a large white metal structure behind it that has stairs running around it, all the way to the top. In the background at left, a completed antenna faces away from us. Farther away in the background are brown mountains.

Building an Antenna

A crane lowers the 112-foot-wide (34-meter-wide) steel framework for the Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23) reflector dish into position on Dec. 18, 2024, at the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California. A multi-frequency beam waveguide antenna, DSS-23 will boost the DSN's capacity and enhance NASA's deep space communications capabilities for decades to come.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

TakenDecember 18, 2024

Image CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech

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