NASA's Deep Space Network is getting a new dish to help distant spacecraft phone home

A white satellite dish is huge and faces the sky.

On March 19, one of NASA's Deep Space Network facilities — located in Canberra, Australia — entered its 60th year of relaying priceless information between scientists on Earth and the spacecraft they send beyond.

Also on March 19, the agency began work on a new member of this facility: Deep Space Station 33. This will be the fifth radio antenna for Canberra; there are two other Deep Space Network facilities, one in Barstow, California and the other in Madrid, Spain.