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Deep Space Network - edition

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https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1696582832276066413
>At the NAC science committee meeting, Suzanne Dodd of JPL shows this chart of the impacts of Artemis 1 on the Deep Space Network. The eight cubesat missions consumed nearly as much time as Orion itself; science missions and DSN maintenance lost lots of time.
>Dodd, on the Artemis 1 cubesats and their demand on DSN: don't know who thought it was a good idea to add them. Cubesats have a place, but not on the DSN on these missions.

https://spacenews.com/nasa-deep-space-network-reaches-critical-point-as-demand-grows/
>“When Artemis comes online, everybody else moves out of the way, and it’s an impact to all the science missions,” said Suzanne Dodd, director of the interplanetary network directorate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, during an Aug. 29 meeting of the NASA Advisory Council’s science committee.

We're going to lose contact with the rest of the solar system when we start launching manned mission back to the moon, aren't we?