Deep Space Network feeling pinch as space activity expands

NASA's Deep Space Network is getting crowded as the agency's "faster- better-cheaper" approach to spacecraft development kicks in, but funding to upgrade the international array of tracking antennas is growing scarce, officials say. Originally established in 1958 as the U.S. space program began with...

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