Inter Continental, Inter-Agency Arraying - The Galileo Experience

Since November 1, 1996, the Galileo orbital tour of jupiter and its moons is routinely supported by a massive array of large antennas: two 70-meter antennas in GDSCC and CDSCC, a 64-meter antenna at Parkes, and additional 34-meter antennas at CDSCC. The scope of this array is unprevented, it operates daily in a routine fashion, inter-continentally, and employs antennas of several agenscies, namely two complexes of JPL's Deep Space Network (DSN) an CSIRO's Parkes facility. The Success of this routine arraying operation is the basis for the DSN's new array of 34-meter antennas that is being implementet at GDSCC.