... Base, California, actively tracks all objects of ‘softball size’ (10cm) or larger in orbit, using the US Space Surveillance Network (SSN) as our primary detection suite of sensors. The SSN is comprised of ground radar and optical systems and...
... predict the orbits of space objects, Buccaneer will perform calibration experiments for Australia’s Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) from Low Earth Orbit. “Satellites and space debris move around erratically due to space weather...
... with mission control, is in the process of beaming back science and engineering data, via NASA's Deep Space Network Goldstone Complex in California's Mojave Desert. During this final chapter, Cassini will make a total of 22 dives between...
... to meet the future requirements including that of human space flight. The ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) was India's nerve centre for the country’s first interplanetary mission, the Mars Orbiter Mission...
... its Santa Maria Island in the Azores archipelago is used to host one of ESA’s ESTRACK (ESA's Tracking Stations Network) antennas. However its space agency is relatively new and was only established 18 months ago. During this...
... bodies in and outside of the Solar System from exoplanets to dangerous asteroids and meandering comets. The MASTER network has discovered about one thousand new optical transients of all types - from astrophysical explosions to potentially dangerous...