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#NASA officials sound alarm over future of the #DeepSpaceNetwork. #DSN, a collection of antennas in California, Spain, and Australia maintain contact with missions scattered across #SolarSystem.
"I'm not sure who thought it was a good idea to put up #CubeSats with #ArtemisI." 8 CubeSats were tracked with DSN. But limited resources and only so many antennas, DSN had to turn away from NASA's other science missions to focus on #Orion #spacecraft and CubeSats flying with it. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/nasas-artemis-i-mission-nearly-broke-the-deep-space-network/