NASA’s Hybrid Antenna Ushers In a New Era of Deep Space Laser Communication
NASA’s introduction of a hybrid antenna into the DSN marks a significant advancement in space communication, enabling faster data transmission and supporting the demands of…
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From Apollo to Artemis: Celebrating 60 Years of NASA’s Deep Space Network
The agency’s DSN provides critical communications and navigation services to dozens of space missions, and it’s being modernized to support dozens more. NASA’s Deep Space…
NASA’s “Interplanetary Switchboard” Adds Enormous New Dish To Communicate With Deep Space Missions
Part of an ongoing project to grow the capacity of the Deep Space Network, which acts as a kind of interplanetary switchboard, the new antenna…
DSN Upgrades: NASA’s Deep Space Network Looks to the Future
The DSN is being upgraded to communicate with more spacecraft than ever before and to accommodate evolving mission needs. When NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover…
NASA’s Deep Space Network Welcomes a Super Powerful New Dish to the Family
The addition brings new capabilities to the network, which acts as an interplanetary switchboard, connecting us to missions at the Moon and far beyond. A…
NASA’s New Deep Space Network Dish Will Communicate With Robotic Spacecraft Using Radio Waves and Lasers
NASA Prepares for Moon and Mars With New Addition to Its Deep Space Network Surrounded by California desert, NASA officials broke ground Tuesday, February 11,…