Communicating and Navigating with Missions

General

NASA Program Aids Pediatric Patients Facing Medical Treatments

As NASA innovates for the benefit of humanity and inspires the world through discovery, the agency launched a new video series specifically designed for use by medical treatment centers across the United States to help reduce anxiety and stress among pediatric patients during treatment.

Posted November 18, 2024

International Space Station (ISS)

Astronauts

Humans in Space

ISS Research

Johnson Space Center

Near Space Network

Sunita L. Williams

Colorado Students to Connect with NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station

Students from Colorado will have the opportunity to hear NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams answer their prerecorded questions aboard the International Space Station on Thursday, Nov. 14. Watch the 20-minute space-to-Earth call at 1 p.m. EST on NASA+. Learn how to watch NASA content on various platforms, including social media.

Posted November 12, 2024

Ames Research Center

Small Satellite Missions

Technology Demonstration

NASA’s Record-Breaking Laser Demo Completes Mission

NASA’s TBIRD (TeraByte InfraRed Delivery) demonstration and its host spacecraft — the PTD-3 (Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-3) — have completed their technology demonstration. The TBIRD payload spent the past two years breaking world records for the fastest satellite downlink from space using laser communications.

Posted September 25, 2024

Goddard Technology

Technology

Reinventing the Clock: NASA’s New Tech for Space Timekeeping

Here on Earth, it might not matter if your wristwatch runs a few seconds slow. But crucial spacecraft functions need accuracy down to one billionth of a second or less. Navigating with GPS, for example, relies on precise timing signals from satellites to pinpoint locations.

Posted September 18, 2024

Near Space Network

Space Operations Mission Directorate

NASA Selects Lunar Relay Contractor for Near Space Network Services

NASA has awarded a contract to Intuitive Machines, LLC of Houston, to support the agency’s lunar relay systems as part of the Near Space Network, operated by the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Posted September 17, 2024

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Astrophysics

Dark Energy

Dark Matter

Exoplanets

Goddard Technology

Science & Research

Technology

The Universe

NASA Completes Spacecraft to Transport, Support Roman Space Telescope

The spacecraft bus that will deliver NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to its orbit and enable it to function once there is now complete after years of construction, installation, and testing.

Posted September 17, 2024

Former Space Communications, Navigation Interns Pioneer NASA’s Future

For over a decade, NASA’s SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation) Internship Project alumni have played important roles in extending the agency’s long-term vision for exploration.

Posted July 25, 2024

Artemis

Ground Antenna Trio to Give NASA’s Artemis Campaign ‘LEGS’ to Stand On

Background NASA’s LEGS can do more than help Earthlings move about the planet. Three Lunar Exploration Ground Sites, or LEGS, will enhance the Near Space Network’s communications services and support of NASA’s Artemis campaign.

Posted July 22, 2024

Earth Science

PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)