NASA is upgrading its massive deep space antenna in Australia

NASA is upgrading one of the biggest deep space antennas it owns, the Deep Space Station 43 (DSS-43) located in Australia. This antenna is part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, the ‘interplanetary switchboard’ used to communicate with machinery located in space. The DSS-43 in Canberra is massive at 230ft across, making it one of the largest radio antennas on the …