Screen shot of DSN wsbsite showing the status of DSN antennas and the spacecraft being tracked at the 3 DSN sites. Antenna 36 at Canberra is currently receiving telemetry data from the Europa Clipper spacecraft,

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   AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 09:35:41 JST AkaSci 🛰️

   Let's do a thread on the Europa Clipper mission, which had a successful launch earlier today.

   Both 14m long solar arrays have been unfolded and are operational.

   Comms was established quickly after launch using the X-band link at 50 kbps.

   The Ka-band high rate link has probably not been activated yet; from Jupiter, it will be able to send data at 500 kbps to a single 34m DSN station. Higher rates are possible using multiple DSN antennas.

   https://blogs.nasa.gov/europaclipper/2024/10/14/solar-arrays-on-nasas-europa-clipper-fully-deployed-in-space/
   https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
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