I’ve been to Goldstone near Barstow CA. The large dish was huge and the actual building structure rotates on hydraulic plates. Radio operators refer to rotating a beam antenna as “turning the house” That is appropriate at Goldstone. I even saw the Gold (plated) Bricks (for cooling of the components)
DSS 14: "Mars" 70m Cassegrain reflector on Alt/Az mount. ~3850 m2 aperture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_Deep_Space_Communications_Complex#Antennas
Here's the image of the on-site informational sign.
"DSN – Follow the Sun"
The home page has a simple map diagram of the complex, and the farthest point out is the location of MARS. This is interesting to me because for some odd reason the Japanese flag is the simple orb of a *red* sun (Nihon/Japan: "origin of the sun"). Looks like Mars. Some kind of bait and switch going on in the lower worlds, haha.
Ah, but the name of the place is Goldstone, and on Google maps, the address is placed at the guard gate:
93 Goldstone Rd, Fort Irwin, CA 92310
Somebody must have had some fun with all of it, because 93 mil miles is of course the distance to the sun. 93 = "The Megillah", if anyone could believe it.
Some while back I had been looking at the map of Fort Irwin and the training center address jumped right out because I already had a long list:
983 Inner Loop Rd, Fort Irwin, CA 92310
It's amazing how much there is to see around the world just by browsing a page such as
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_telescopes
What's in a name.. Bar-stow, because who would ever be looking [up from] there.
Thank you. It is an interesting part of the world.
There are a lot of real scientist (not political scientists, not computer scientists, not social scientists).
Real world physical scientists. (computers are real and like all electronics they are electrical engineering until you get to software)