Space Communications & Navigation Program

General
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Goddard Space Flight Center
Space Communications & Navigation Program
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
Humans in Space
Astronauts
International Space Station (ISS)
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Students from Rocky Hill, Connecticut, will have the chance to connect with NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Don Pettit as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions from aboard the International Space Station. Watch the 20-minute space-to-Earth call at 11:40 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb.
Posted February 11, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Artemis
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Communications Technology
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
Manufacturing, Materials, 3-D Printing
Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Balloons
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Communications Technology
Technology
In fall 2024, NASA developed and tested a 3D-printed antenna to demonstrate a low-cost capability to communicate science data to Earth.
Posted January 22, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Artemis
Blue Ghost (lander)
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Earth's Moon
Near Space Network
Space Communications & Navigation Program
As the Artemis campaign leads humanity to the Moon and eventually Mars, NASA is refining its state-of-the-art navigation and positioning technologies to guide a new era of lunar exploration.
Posted January 10, 2025
Technology
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
NASA Directorates
Near Space Network
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA has selected multiple companies to expand the agency’s Near Space Network’s commercial direct-to-Earth capabilities services, which is a mission-critical communication capability that allows spacecraft to transmit data directly to ground stations on Earth.
Posted December 21, 2024
Deep Space Network
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Operations Mission Directorate
Deep Space Station 23’s 133-ton reflector dish was recently installed, marking a key step in strengthening NASA’s Deep Space Network. NASA’s Deep Space Network, an array of giant radio antennas, allows agency missions to track, send commands to, and receive scientific data from spacecraft venturing to the Moon and beyond. NASA is adding a new […]
Posted December 21, 2024
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
General
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
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
Flight Opportunities Program
Game Changing Development Program
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Psyche Mission
Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Technology
Technology Demonstration Missions Program
One year ago today, the future of space communications arrived at Earth as a beam of light from a NASA spacecraft nearly 10 million miles away. That’s 40 times farther than our Moon. That’s like using a laser pointer to track a moving dime from a mile away. That’s pretty precise. That laser — transmitted […]
Posted November 14, 2024
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