Communicating and Navigating with Missions

Artemis

Artemis 2

Commercial Space

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

The Future of Commercial Space

NASA Selects Participants to Track Artemis II Mission

NASA has selected 34 global volunteers to track the Orion spacecraft during the crewed Artemis II mission’s journey around the Moon. The Artemis II test flight will launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, carrying the Orion spacecraft and a crew of four astronauts, on a mission into deep space. The agency’s second mission in […]

Posted January 23, 2026

Commercial Space

Space Communications Technology

Technology Demonstration

NASA’s Wideband Technology Demo Proves Space Missions are Free to Roam

Just like your cellphone stays connected by roaming between networks, NASA’s Polylingual Experimental Terminal, or PExT, technology demonstration is proving space missions can do the same by switching seamlessly between government and commercial communications networks.

Posted December 19, 2025

Commercial Space

Space Operations Mission Directorate

NASA’s Push Toward Commercial Space Communications Gains Momentum

NASA’s commercial partners are actively demonstrating next-generation satellite relay capabilities for spaceflight missions, marking a significant step toward retiring the agency’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) system and adopting commercial services.

Posted December 17, 2025

Commercial Space

SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)

NASA Enables SPHEREx Data Return Through Commercial Partnership

NASA is partnering with commercial industry to expand our knowledge of Earth, our solar system, and beyond.

Posted May 6, 2025

General

NASA’s Use of the Radio Frequency Spectrum

As associate administrator for NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate Ken Bowersox puts it, “nothing happens without communications.” And effective communications require the use of radio waves. None of NASA’s exciting science and engineering endeavors would be possible without the use of radio waves to send data, communications, and comma

Posted April 23, 2025

General

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon

NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3 when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to acquire and track Earth-based navigation signals on the Moon’s surface. The LuGRE payload’s success in lunar orbit and on the surface indicates that signals from the GNSS (Global Navigation Satelli

Posted March 4, 2025

People of Goddard

Technology

Shaigh Sisk: Keeping the Wheels Turning in Projects and Pottery

Project support specialist Shaigh Sisk helps keep things running in Goddard's Exploration and Space Communications Projects division - and in her free time, she keeps the pottery wheel turning, fusing science and art in her creations.

Posted February 10, 2025

Artemis

Space Communications Technology

More Than 400 Lives Saved with NASA’s Search and Rescue Tech in 2024

Did you know that the same search and rescue technologies developed by NASA for astronaut missions to space help locate and rescue people across the United States and around the world? NASA’s collaboration with the international satellite-aided search and rescue effort known as Cospas-Sarsat has enabled the development of multiple emergency locati

Posted February 6, 2025

Artemis

Blue Ghost (lander)

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Earth's Moon

Near Space Network