The Listening Room

Earth is talking to 11 spacecraft.

NASA’s Deep Space Network, live: three stations a third of the world apart, so nothing out there ever sets for long. Every line below is on the air right now.

GOL

Goldstone

Mojave Desert, California

DSS25

ESCG

X-band down at 8.0 kb/s

DSS24

MMX

X-band down at 52 kb/s

DSS26

M01O

X-band down at 40 kb/s

DSS23

ExoMars TGO

X-band down at 833 kb/s

Parked: DSS14 (engineering upgrades)

MAD

Madrid

Robledo de Chavela, Spain

DSS56

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

commanding up

DSS65

STEREO-A

X-band down at 480 kb/s

DSS54

SOHO

S-band down at 246 kb/s

Parked: DSS55 (engineering upgrades) · DSS63 (antenna calibration)

CAN

Canberra

Tidbinbilla, Australia

DSS34

LRO

in session · 1.3 light-seconds away

DSS35

RST

S-band down at 780 kb/s

DSS36

Danuri

S-band down at 8.2 kb/s

DSS43

Voyager 2

X-band down at 160 b/s · 20.0 light-hours away

Live from NASA’s DSN Now feed, refreshed every minute · ▲ commanding up, ▼ receiving down · distances as one-way light time · a code without a name in our list is shown as its code · where the fleet is →