Space Communications Technology

Deep Space Network
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Communications Technology
Space Operations Mission Directorate
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology Demonstration
Technology Demonstration Missions Program
Capable of receiving both radio frequency and optical signals, the DSN’s hybrid antenna has tracked and decoded the downlink laser from DSOC, aboard NASA’s Psyche mission. An experimental antenna has received both radio frequency and near-infrared laser signals from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft as it travels through deep space.
Posted February 8, 2024
Space Communications Technology
Goddard Space Flight Center
Space Communications & Navigation Program
In 2023, NASA-developed search and rescue technologies aided first responders in locating and saving 350 lives in the United States. Now, NASA is incorporating that same technology in astronaut missions. NASA provides technical expertise to the international satellite-aided search and rescue effort known as Cospas-Sarsat.
Posted January 30, 2024
Glenn Research Center
Artemis 2
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Doing Business with NASA
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Communications Technology
NASA is working with private industry partners and small businesses under Artemis to produce scalable, affordable, and advanced laser communications systems that could enable greater exploration and discovery beyond Earth for the benefit of all.
Posted January 10, 2024
ISS Research
General
International Space Station (ISS)
Kjell N. Lindgren
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Communications Technology
STEM Engagement at NASA
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
Artemis 1
Artemis
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
General
Goddard Space Flight Center
Johnson Space Center
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Communications Technology
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
Goddard Space Flight Center
Space Communications Technology
Technology
Rows upon rows of cobalt-blue spires in Goddard’s antenna chamber evoke a soundproof room from a recording studio. Much like laying down tracks on a hit album, this testing facility ensures clean takes for NASA missions' antennas and their data transmissions.
Posted November 2, 2023
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
General
Goddard Space Flight Center
ILLUMA-T
Laser Communications Relay
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Communications Technology
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
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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