NASA leadership gathered on August 25, 2026, at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex near Barstow, California, for a ribbon-cutting event celebrating the completion of Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23). The new antenna is part of the Deep Space Network’s Aperture Enhancement Project, which began in 2009 to upgrade and expand the network.
Present at the event were Germaine Aziz (project manager, DSN Aperture Enhancement Project, JPL), Bradford Arnold (manager, Telecom Programs & Oversight, JPL), Keyur Patel (associate lab director for Flight Projects & Mission Success, JPL), Wanda Peters (deputy associate administrator, Research and Technology Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters), Jimmy Kenyon (associate administrator, RTMD, NASA Headquarters), John McCullough (acting director, Space Communications and Navigation Program, NASA Headquarters), Gregory Heckler (deputy program manager for capability development, SCaN, NASA Headquarters), William Marinelli (development manager, SCaN, NASA Headquarters), Michael Levesque (project manager, DSN, JPL), and Frank Kaufholod (project manager, NASA Glenn Research Center).
DSS-23 is one of six new 34-meter (114-foot) multifrequency beam-waveguide antennas added through the Aperture Enhancement Project. These antennas are designed to enhance missions operating over different radio frequencies by allowing missions to track, send commands to, and receive scientific data from faraway spacecraft. The Deep Space Network is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of Caltech, for SCaN, which is located at NASA Headquarters within RTMD.
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