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NASA’s Deep Space Network Turns 60 and Prepares for the Future

Editor’s Note: Text regarding the name of JPL’s first ground stations was updated on Dec. 27, 2023. 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 Network marks its 60th year on Dec. 24.
Posted December 22, 2023
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Psyche Mission
Space Communications & Navigation Program
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Tech Demo Missions

NASA’s Tech Demo Streams First Video From Deep Space via Laser

The video, featuring a cat named Taters, was sent back from nearly 19 million miles away by NASA’s laser communications demonstration, marking a historic milestone. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment beamed an ultra-high definition streaming video on Dec.
Posted December 18, 2023
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Technology Demonstration

NASA’s Space Station Laser Comm Terminal Achieves First Link

A NASA technology experiment on the International Space Station completed its first laser link with an in-orbit laser relay system on Dec. 5, 2023. Together, they complete NASA’s first two-way, end-to-end laser relay system.
Posted December 13, 2023
ISS Research
General
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Kjell N. Lindgren
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STEM Engagement at NASA

Ham Radio in Space: Engaging with Students Worldwide for 40 Years

In May 2018, a student at Mill Springs Academy in Alpharetta, Georgia, Andrew Maichle, talked to NASA astronaut Scott Tingle on the International Space Station via amateur or ham radio. The experience profoundly affected Maichle, who went on to study electrical engineering at Clemson University in South Carolina. “It was so cool to see in […]
Posted November 29, 2023
Psyche Mission
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Operations Mission Directorate
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Tech Demo Missions

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Comm Demo Sends, Receives First Data

DSOC, an experiment that could transform how spacecraft communicate, has achieved ‘first light,’ sending data via laser to and from far beyond the Moon for the first time.
Posted November 17, 2023
Artemis 1
Artemis
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
General
Goddard Space Flight Center
Johnson Space Center
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Communications Technology

Volunteers Worldwide Successfully Tracked NASA’s Artemis I Mission

In the year since NASA’s historic Artemis I mission successfully launched, the agency has been analyzing data from its approximately 25-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth, including data submitted from volunteers around the world as they tracked the uncrewed Orion spacecraft. The flight test, which launched on Nov. 16, 2022, atop the […]
Posted November 15, 2023
Technology
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Goddard Space Flight Center
Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy (OTPS)
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Technology for Space Travel

NASA Improves GIANT Optical Navigation Technology for Future Missions

Goddard's GIANT optical navigation software helped guide the OSIRIS-REx mission to the Asteroid Bennu. Today its developers continue to add functionality and streamline useability for future missions.
Posted October 25, 2023
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
General
Goddard Space Flight Center
ILLUMA-T
Laser Communications Relay
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Communications Technology

NASA’s First Two-way End-to-End Laser Communications System

NASA is demonstrating laser communications on multiple missions – showcasing the benefits infrared light can have for science and exploration missions transmitting terabytes of important data. The International Space Station is getting a “flashy” technology demonstration this November.
Posted October 25, 2023
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Communications Technology

SCaN STEM Navigation Activities

Navigate Space: Space Communications and Navigation Workbook Grades 8 – 12  NASA navigates throughout the solar system and beyond, revealing the mysteries of the universe. In this workbook, you’ll use basic mathematics concepts to explore space navigation.
Posted September 28, 2023
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