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October 15, 2005
Patrick J. Carr, ITT's Deep Space Network Operations and Maintenance Contract Program Manager, 9/7/05
Patrick J. Carr is responsible for providing operations and maintenance support for the Deep Space Network, which supports JPL-NASA critical space exploration missions. The Deep Space Network's international system of antennas communicates with interplanetary spacecraft missions, such as Cassini and Mars Spirit. The network also collects information from Voyager 1, launched in 1977 and the most distant man-made object in space.
ITT's Systems Division makes sure the antennas at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California are calibrated and positioned correctly to collect information from deep-space craft. The antennas at Goldstone range in diameter from 85 feet to 230 feet. Signals received from Cassini can be as weak as a billionth of a milliwatt, more than 20 billion times less than the power required for a digital watch.
Mr. Carr has over 33 years experience in the Aerospace and Defense industry, including assignments at the Pentagon and key U.S. satellite command and control, early warning, ICBM, and launch facilities around the United States.
Posted by David Lemberg at October 15, 2005 12:24 PM Return to SCIENCE AND SOCIETY home page