Keith’s 9:30 am ET note: Apparently the NASA Deep Space Network Now website only operates with human intervention – NASA civil servant intervention, to be specific. If you visit the site now it is online but it does not show any activity on the DSN. There is a clock in the upper former that shows that it is updating. Obviously the DSN is still talking to spacecraft such as New […]
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Bizarre. @doug_ellison complains about #Mars Opportunity false alarm because people went to a @NASA_JPL website he helped develop that showed Opportunity sending a signal to Earth. So Doug, maybe we shouldn't trust what @NASA JPL websites like https://t.co/oYsm5UOmKg say – right? pic.twitter.com/bCMH6LJ58x — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 16, 2018 Keith’s note: NASA has some pretty amazing websites. Some of the best ones are made by JPL. They are immensely popular. […]
NASA OIG: NASA’s Management of the Deep Space Network, NASA OIG “Although DSN is meeting its current operational commitments, budget reductions have challenged the Network’s ability to maintain these performance levels and threaten its future reliability. … If budget reductions continue, DSN faces an increased risk that it will be unable to meet future operational commitments or complete the upgrade project on schedule. We also found that NASA, JPL, and […]
Keith’s note: If you go to the DSN NOW page you will see ISEE-3 (ICE) lined up ready for ranging at DSS-24 at Goldstone. Our ranging session starts at 1:45 pm PDT (4:45 pm EDT) and will last for an hour. We’ll try and post real time updates on Twitter at @ISEE3Reboot Keith’s update: We did not have any luck establishing two-way communication between ISEE-3 and DSN today. We’ll regroup […]
ISEE-3 Reboot Project Scheduled for DSN Doppler and Ranging Activity “We have received confirmation from NASA that we have been confirmed for time on the DSN (Deep Space Network) for two-way Doppler and ranging activities with the ISEE-3 spacecraft. This is being done so as to determine the location of ISEE-3 with great precision for navigation purposes. Based on this data we will conduct our course correction engine firing. We […]