| White Sands Control
Center
Located in
Las Cruces New Mexico USA NASAs 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 NASAs 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 NASAs White
Sands Center. Separated by four miles of "inter-facility link" on the White
Sands Missile Range, NASAs "Cacique" (above right) and "Danzante"
(right).
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 NASAs WSC, SpaceData will offer fiber and
WAN connectivity for seismic data distribution worldwide directly to
customers sites. |