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RE: Tidbinbilla Deep Space Tracking Station

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NASA officials broke ground near Canberra, Australia on Wednesday, Feb. 24, beginning a new antenna-building campaign to improve Deep Space Network communications.
Following the recommendations of an independent study, NASA embarked on an ambitious project to replace its aging fleet of 70-meter-wide dishes with a new generation of 34-meter antennas by 2025.
The three 70-meter antennas, located at the NASA Deep Space Network complexes at Goldstone, Calif., Madrid, Spain, and Canberra, are more than 40 years old and show wear and tear from constant use.
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It takes more than 9½ years for a spacecraft to travel the 5.7 billion kilometres to Pluto. But when the New Horizons mission finally passes the dwarf planet in 2015, Australia will play a pivotal role.
An official from the US space agency NASA has confirmed plans to build two new dish antennae at Tidbinbilla, just outside Canberra, as part of the support network that tracks all of NASA's deep space missions.
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The deep space complex at Tidbinbilla is about to expand with NASA approving plans for up to four new antennae by 2025.
NASA's Badri Younes says the ground breaking ceremony will be held tomorrow for the first of the new 34-metre antennae for the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex.
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