Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex
E139645
The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex is a NASA-affiliated ground station in Australia that tracks and communicates with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex canonical | 2 |
| Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex | 1 |
| Orroral Valley Tracking Station site | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1197527 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex Context triple: [Deep Space Network, hasPart, Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex]
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Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex is a major NASA facility in California that houses large radio antennas used to track and communicate with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
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Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex
The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex is a major NASA facility near Madrid, Spain, equipped with large radio antennas that track and communicate with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
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Deep Space Network
The Deep Space Network is NASA’s global system of large radio antennas used to track, communicate with, and receive data from distant spacecraft throughout the solar system and beyond.
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D.
Arecibo Observatory
Arecibo Observatory was a world-famous radio telescope facility in Puerto Rico known for its pioneering work in radio astronomy, atmospheric science, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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E.
Goddard Spacecraft Operations Control Center
The Goddard Spacecraft Operations Control Center is NASA’s primary facility at the Goddard Space Flight Center for monitoring, commanding, and managing the operations of numerous Earth-orbiting and deep-space spacecraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex Target entity description: The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex is a NASA-affiliated ground station in Australia that tracks and communicates with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
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A.
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex is a major NASA facility in California that houses large radio antennas used to track and communicate with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
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B.
Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex
The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex is a major NASA facility near Madrid, Spain, equipped with large radio antennas that track and communicate with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
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C.
Deep Space Network
The Deep Space Network is NASA’s global system of large radio antennas used to track, communicate with, and receive data from distant spacecraft throughout the solar system and beyond.
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D.
Arecibo Observatory
Arecibo Observatory was a world-famous radio telescope facility in Puerto Rico known for its pioneering work in radio astronomy, atmospheric science, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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E.
Goddard Spacecraft Operations Control Center
The Goddard Spacecraft Operations Control Center is NASA’s primary facility at the Goddard Space Flight Center for monitoring, commanding, and managing the operations of numerous Earth-orbiting and deep-space spacecraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
deep space communications complex
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ground station ⓘ space communications facility ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Commonwealth scientific agencies in Australia
ⓘ
surface form:
CSIRO
NASA ⓘ |
| coordinatesSpacecraft | trajectory corrections ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| hasAntennaType |
34-meter beam waveguide antenna
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34-meter high-efficiency antenna ⓘ 70-meter dish antenna ⓘ |
| hasFacility | visitor centre ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Australian Capital Territory (enclaved within) (geographical context)
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surface form:
Australian Capital Territory
Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve ⓘ
surface form:
Tidbinbilla
|
| locatedNear | Canberra ⓘ |
| networkRole | one of three primary Deep Space Network complexes ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Commonwealth scientific agencies in Australia
ⓘ
surface form:
CSIRO
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| ownedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf |
Deep Space Network
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Deep Space Network
|
| performs |
Doppler tracking
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ranging measurements ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
communicating with interplanetary spacecraft
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receiving scientific data from deep space missions ⓘ tracking interplanetary spacecraft ⓘ |
| regionCoverage | Asia-Pacific sky coverage for Deep Space Network ⓘ |
| sisterComplex |
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
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Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex ⓘ |
| supportsAgency |
European Space Agency
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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ⓘ
surface form:
JAXA
NASA ⓘ other international space agencies ⓘ |
| supportsMission |
Mars orbiters
ⓘ
Mars rovers ⓘ New Horizons ⓘ
surface form:
New Horizons spacecraft
Voyager spacecraft ⓘ lunar exploration spacecraft ⓘ |
| supportsMissionType |
Mars missions
ⓘ
deep space probes ⓘ interplanetary missions ⓘ lunar missions ⓘ outer planet missions ⓘ planetary landers ⓘ planetary orbiters ⓘ solar system exploration missions ⓘ |
| timeZone | Australian Eastern Standard Time ⓘ |
| usesFrequencyBand |
Ka-band
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S-band ⓘ X-band ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex Description of subject: The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex is a NASA-affiliated ground station in Australia that tracks and communicates with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.