According to a 1975 NASA report, the DSN was designed to communicate with "spacecraft traveling approximately 16,000 km (10,000 miles) from Earth to the farthest planets of the solar system."
根據一份1975年NASA的報告，DSN是設計來與「距離地球16000公里以上到太陽系中最遠的行星之間」 建立通訊。