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

STEREO-A

X-band down at 480 kb/s

DSS23

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

commanding up

DSS23

M01O

X-band down at 28 kb/s

DSS26

ExoMars TGO

in session

Parked: DSS14 (engineering upgrades)

MAD

Madrid

Robledo de Chavela, Spain

DSS54

SOHO

in session

DSS56

Wind

in session

DSS53

ACE

S-band down at 88 kb/s

Parked: DSS55 (engineering upgrades) · DSS63 (engineering upgrades) · DSS65 (engineering upgrades)

CAN

Canberra

Tidbinbilla, Australia

DSS36

RST

S-band down at 780 kb/s

DSS34

James Webb Space Telescope

K-band down at 28.0 Mb/s · 4.1 light-seconds away

DSS43

Voyager 2

X-band down at 160 b/s · 19.9 light-hours away

DSS35

MMS2

in session

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 →