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    Deep Space Network
    The Deep Space Network, or DSN, is an international network of communication facilities that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions, and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe. It is best known for its large radio antennas. The network also supports selected Earth-orbiting missions. DSN is part of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). History The forerunner of the DSN was established in January, 1958, when JPL, then under contract to the U.S. Army, deployed portable radio tracking stations in Nigeria, Singapore, and California to receive telemetry and plot the orbit of the Army-launched Explorer 1, the first successful U.S. satellite.[LINK: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4227/Uplink-Downlink.pdf] Uplink-Downlink: A History of the Deep Space Network, 1957-1997 (NASA SP-2001-4227), page 5 NASA was officially established on Oc

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