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Networks consolidation programThe Networks Consolidation Program (NCP) goals were defined to include the planning, designing, and implementing of a single network of ground tracking stations. The proposed consolidated network is to make use of facilities that are now included in the Goddard Ground Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network as well as the existing JPL Deep Space Network. These facilities are to be combined and modified to provide a consolidated network capable of supporting the set of planetary and Highly Elliptical Earth Orbiter missions that are planned for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System era. The history of activities and events that led to the decision to consolidate the NASA ground tracking and data networks are traced. A summary of the management and planning activities that have taken place at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, and at the NASA Headquarters Office of Space Tracking and Data Systems, with respect to the NCP, from the time of decision in October 1979 to the present, are discussed.
Document ID
19800024934
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Yeater, M. L. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Herrman, D. T. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Sanner, G. E. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 10, 2013
Publication Date
October 15, 1980
Publication Information
Publication: The Telecommun. and Data Acquisition Rept.
Subject Category
Ground Support Systems And Facilities (Space)
Accession Number
80N33442
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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