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NASA officials sound alarm over future of the Deep Space Network (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by KelsonV to c/space
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DSN needs more bandwidth to handle everything they want to throw at it, but isn't getting the budget

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would they? They aren't using the infrastructure

[โ€“] Senshi 3 points 1 year ago

Whenever a space agency affiliated with NASA needs to use the DSN for one of their missions, NASA accommodates and grants usage of it. And obviously, the mission agency pays for this usage out of their own mission budget. This goes the other way around as well. Since 2007, the DSN is closely partnered with ESTRACK, which is ESA's antenna network. There also are cooperations with JAXA and ISRO ( Japan and India). Sometimes their networks can help fill coverage gaps or offer better bandwidths. Global cooperation really has its benefits.