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Near Earth Network

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The Near Earth Network (NEN, formerly GN or "Ground Network") provides orbital communications support for Near-Earth orbiting customer platforms via various NASA ground stations. NASA's NEN consists of ground stations in: Merritt Island Launch Annex (MILA) and Ponce de Leon Ground Station (PDL), Florida[1] McMurdo, Antarctica Wallops Island, Virginia. Also under contract are commercial operators at Spitsbergen, Norway; Poker Flat Research Range and the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) in Fairbanks, Alaska; Santiago Chile; South Point, Hawaii, North Pole, Alaska, and Dongara, Australia. Additionally, the MILA and Wallops stations provide pre-launch, launch, and landing communications support for the Space Transportation System (STS). The NEN and SN combined were previously referred to as the Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network (STDN).[1]

Contents
1 Authority and responsibility 2 Support for Constellation 3 See also 4 Footnotes 5 References

Authority and responsibility

The NEN falls under NASA's SOMD (Space Operations Mission Directorate), interoperating with the SCaN Program offices. The GSFC Ground Network Project has responsibility for maintaining the NEN, as well as implementing the Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) Network.

Support for Constellation

The NEN must support the future Constellation project, including the Ares launch vehicle, NISN (NASA Integrated Services Network), FDF (Flight Dynamics Facilities), KSC Launch Control Center, and the Constellation Mission Control Center (MCC). NEN must support the Dissimilar Voice (DV) and Development Flight Instrumentation (DFI) from launch through Main Engines Cut-Off (MECO) plus two minutes.

See also
Space Network Deep Space Network Space Communications and Navigation Program Indian Deep Space Network

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TDRS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite Eastern Range

Footnotes
1. ^ NASA, Exploration and Space Communications Projects Division; Goddard Space Flight Center (August 2007). Space Network User's Guide (SNUG), 2.4, Supporting Elements Outside the SN, (e), "Ground Network (GN)" (Rev 9 ed.). National Aeronautics and Space Administration. pp. 2.13. 450-SNUG.

References
Constellation Architecture Requirements Document (CARD), CxP 70000, Revision C (December 25, 2008). NASA: Constellation Systems Engineering and Integration Office Space Network User's Guide (SNUG), 450-SNUG, Rev 9. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Earth_Network" Categories: NASA facilities This page was last modified on 10 September 2009 at 21:22. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.

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