Ive heard that DSN antennas are also used to help track space debris – does that happen?
We have a system that exists just at Goldstone, which is a very high-powered transmitter that’s deliberately not the same frequency as we send to spacecraft. We use it to do radar observations. The reason we have it is to do scientific observations, where we send a signal and bounce it off an asteroid or a planet and receive it. From science team processing, they can construct things equivalent to images or texture diagrams. That very same system is used from time to time to locate orbital debris for the manned program. Yes, we have done that.
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