Near Earth Network | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-11-19

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Near Earth Network

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The Near Earth Network (NEN, formerly GN or Ground Network) provides orbital communications support for near-Earth orbiting customer platforms via various NASA ground stations.  
NASA's NEN consists of ground stations in:

Merritt Island Launch Annex (MILA) and Ponce de Leon Ground Station (PDL), Florida[1]
McMurdo, Antarctica
Wallops Island, VirginiaAlso under contract are operators at Svalbard Satellite Station, Norway; Poker Flat Research Range and the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) in Fairbanks, Alaska; Santiago, Chile; South Point, Hawaii; North Pole, Alaska; and Dongara, Australia. Additionally, the MILA and Wallops stations provide pre-launch, launch, and landing communications support for the Space Shuttle program. The NEN and SN combined were previously referred to as the Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network (STDN).