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Usuda Deep Space Center
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Usuda Deep Space Center was founded to transmit operation commands to deep-space explorers and to receive observation data from explorers. The location was chosen for its environment to receive faint signals from explorers at great distances with less jamming such as city noise. The center has been in operation since October 1984. The large parabolic antenna, the core component of the facility, has a 64m-diameter reflector and weighs 1,980 tons in total. The center also has a 10m-diameter antenna and a transmitting/receiving system to retrieve VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) observation data.
Geographic Position: Long. 138o 21' 54EE, Lat. 36o 07' 54EN
Altitude: 1,456m
Area: 98,302m2
Location
1831-6 Omagari, Kamiodagiri, Saku City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan 384-0306
Tel: +81-267-81-1230
Fax: +81-267-81-1234
Tour Information
Opening hours: 10:00 - 16:00
Closed days: None
Information Desk:
Tel: +81-267-81-1230
Fax: +81-267-1234