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NASA TDRS Series NASA New TDRS Series White Sands Center Las Cruces Control Center
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
White Sands Control Center

wpe8.jpg (9312 bytes) Located in Las Cruces New Mexico USA NASA’s WSC operates two (2) separate highly redundant TDRS ground facilities including three (3) 18.3 meter Ku-band antennas, three (3) 19 meter Ku-band antennas and two (2) 10 meter S-band TT&C antennas.

Included at NASA’s WSC are two (2) co-located fully staffed operations buildings with associated RF, signal processing, data processing and TDRS TT&C.

The three (3) TDRS the Atlantic Ocean Region (AOR) and now three (3) TDRS in the Pacific Ocean Region (POR) each have dedicated, redundant antenna at NASA WSC for receipt of seismic data directly from operational marine seismic vessels.

SeismicStar Services are supported by one of the most sophisticated satellite ground facilities in the world at NASA’s White Sands Center. Separated by four miles of "inter-facility link" on the White Sands Missile Range, NASA’s "Cacique" (above right) and "Danzante" (right).

wpe9.jpg (10196 bytes)The White Sands Test Facility has 98 buildings of 311,000 square feet with an annual budget of $40 million and a workforce of ±1200 people. Optionally, WSC may also receive seismic data from Guam Remote Ground Terminal.

High quality ‘broadband-on-command’ solutions for the highest quality uncompressed marine seismic data delivery with SpaceData.

From NASA’s WSC, SpaceData will offer fiber and WAN connectivity for seismic data distribution worldwide directly to customer’s sites.