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Posts by korinnemcdonnell

Pluto in middle with fainter Charon at 11 o'clock position

For Pluto, Practice Makes Perfect

You’ve been in space for 7.5 years, heading to the outer reaches of our solar system.  In two years you’ll […]

Antenna dish, pedestal and crane.

3…2…1… lift!

At the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex we’re constructing new 34-metre wide antennas and we’ve reached a big milestone with […]

Three images of DSS43, first dirtier, second partially cleaned, third clean and white

What a difference a wash and paint make!

As part of the 6 months of upgrade works on Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex’s 70-m antenna Deep Space Station […]

CDSCC Director Ed Kruzins speaking at ceremony with three other guests sitting

Deep Space Station 43 turns 40!

On the 13th April, 1973, then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam officially opened the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex’s (CDSCC) new […]

Nom nom nom nom

Do Martian rocks taste nice? We can now ask that question of the Mars Science Laboratory, otherwise known as Curiosity.  […]

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