In this section.

HSK becomes DSS-44 updated

Honeysuckle Creek joins the Deep Space Network

Project Viking:

The Viking Project – by Hamish Lindsay

SCAMA call from Viking Scientist Jerry Soffen

Viking audio

Honeysuckle Viking teams

Pioneers 6, 7, 8, 9, E updated

Pioneers 10-11 (update coming soon)

Voyager 1 & 2 (to be updated)

Pioneer Venus and Venus Multiprobe

Pioneer 12

Pioneer 13

Helios

More photos from the Deep Space era.

Honeysuckle Creek in October 1980.

This photo was taken by Bill Wood (ex-Goldstone) on a Deep Space Network “flying clock trip” to provide a better time standard at all three DSN complexes.

Mike Dinn writes, “The small dish [on the right hand side of the microwave tower] is pointing at the coll tower. In the later/last days, I think comms for ORR and HSK went via the coll tower and a microwave link to Black Mountain. And towards the end, the last function at HSK was to keep a generator going to provide power to the coll tower for this.”