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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Chit Chat _ Are communication log files available to public anywhere?

Posted by: ncc1701d Jul 21 2017, 08:55 PM

Hello,
Are there any publically available Communication log files from earth to spacecraft for present and/or past unmanned missions?
It might have start and end dates and times of signals being sent back and forth from earth to spacecraft.
I wouldn't be interested in specifics of content sent or received but only dates times and frequencies and instrument name used at those times if I was lucky.
Is there even such a thing and where might I find something like that?
thanks

Posted by: mcaplinger Jul 21 2017, 09:24 PM

QUOTE (ncc1701d @ Jul 21 2017, 12:55 PM)

Are there any publically available Communication log files from earth to spacecraft for present and/or past unmanned missions?

Not that I'm aware of.

However, I recently ran across http://www.mit.edu/~portillo/dsn/index.html which is based on scraping DSN Now. I have no idea if the site actually works; it just says "loading data" endlessly for me, but maybe you have to register or something, or maybe it's a browser compatibility thing.

Posted by: RoverDriver Jul 21 2017, 10:49 PM

For us (MER/MSL) the "log files" are ITAR material and cannot be published. PDS product headers might contain some vehicle state data you could use.

Paolo