The Deep Space Network antennas are already operating at capacity, with an anticipated growth in demand with the upcoming Artemis missions. Reading time 3 minutes In order to contact its ...
The PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission has delivered its first operational data back to researchers, a feat made possible in part by innovative, data-storing technology from NASA ...
NASA pushed its Deep Space Network beyond its limits during the Artemis I mission nearly four years ago. The global array of deep space communications antennas couldn’t keep up with the routine ...
SpaceX has won a lucrative contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based sensing and targeting data, forming the “backbone” of a rearchitected network after separate ...
The NASA PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission uses the Near Space Network of the space agency, and its first transmission showed how this mode of communication helps improve the ...
If we want to go to Mars, we need a better way to reliably relay messages through space. The solution could be optical communication, or lasers. If we want to go to Mars, we need a better way to ...
WASHINGTON — NASA awarded the option for the Space Network Expansion-East, under the Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment contract, to General Dynamics C4 Systems of Scottsdale, Ariz. The ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is nearly 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometer) away from Earth, orbiting around the sun-Earth Lagrange point 2. How do we send commands and receive telemetry—the ...
We have begun the process of exploring the solar system, launching unmanned probes to lead the way. The images they beam back to us from distant planets gives us a taste of the wonders we will ...