ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) provide mission support to low-earth orbit satellites as well as launch vehicle missions. ISTRAC has its headquarters and a multi-mission spaceship Control Centre at Bangalore. It has a network of ground stations at Bangalore, Luck now, Sriharikota, Port Blair and Thiruvananthapuram in India besides stations at Mauritius, Bearslake (Russia), Brunei and Biak (Indonesia).
ISTRAC activities are organized into network operations, network augmentation, mission operation and spacecraft health monitoring, communications and computers and control centre facilities and development projects. Programme planning and reliability groups support ISTRAC activities.
The Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN), commissioned during the year 2008, at Byalalu village near Bangalore forms the Ground segment for providing deep space support for India's prestigious and first Lunar mission, the Chandrayaan-1.The technical facilities in IDSN include a 32 meter Deep Space Antenna, an 18 meter Antenna Terminal, an 11 meter Antenna Terminal, Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) and a Technical Services complex.
The IDSN is the first of its kind project in the country that provides ISRO the capability to handle deep space missions of India and also provides cross support to other deep space missions of exterior space agencies because of its inter-operable features and state-of-the-art capabilities.
ISTRAC activities are organized into network operations, network augmentation, mission operation and spacecraft health monitoring, communications and computers and control centre facilities and development projects. Programme planning and reliability groups support ISTRAC activities.
The Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN), commissioned during the year 2008, at Byalalu village near Bangalore forms the Ground segment for providing deep space support for India's prestigious and first Lunar mission, the Chandrayaan-1.The technical facilities in IDSN include a 32 meter Deep Space Antenna, an 18 meter Antenna Terminal, an 11 meter Antenna Terminal, Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) and a Technical Services complex.
The IDSN is the first of its kind project in the country that provides ISRO the capability to handle deep space missions of India and also provides cross support to other deep space missions of exterior space agencies because of its inter-operable features and state-of-the-art capabilities.
