Henry Spencer wrote:


It would also be very helpful to have a second southern-hemisphere DSN
site, perhaps in South America. Having only one can become a severe
bottleneck when busy parts of the solar system are in the southern sky.



Due to the plane of the ecliptic, all the planets well stay at pretty
much the same inclination in the sky all of the time and be visible to
telemetry dishes in the northern hemisphere at least sometime each day
until you get into the Arctic Circle in winter.

Pat