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complete when a sixth enhancement project antenna, Deep Space Station 33, comes online at Cambera facility in 2029, bringing the total number of 33 meter antennas across the network 213. The 34 meter antennas can be arrayed or combined and operated together to provide an equivalent communication backup for each facility's single 70 meter antenna which, after more than 50 years of near continuous operation, are getting increasingly costly to maintain and repair. Managed by Caltech for NASA JPL manages the agency's Deep Space Network with the oversight of NASA's scan or space communications and navigation program.