Citation
Abstract
The Networks Consolidation Program (NCP) was established by NASA in the fall of 1979 to implement the recommendations of the Networks Planning Working Group, which had been presented at NASA Headquarters in October of that year. The goals of the NCP were defined to include the planning, designing, and implementing of a single network of ground tracking stations. The proposed consolidated network will 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 will be combined and modified to provide a consolidated network that is 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. , This report traces the history of activities and events that led to the decision to consolidate the NASA ground tracking and data networks. It also presents 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.
Details
- Volume
- 42-59
- Published
- October 15, 1980
- Pages
- 10–13
- File Size
- 1021.2 KB