February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... an asteroid or comet, then those images and accompanying data were received by the giant antenna dishes of the Deep Space Network (DSN). Apollo lunar module descent engine. Arriving at CDSCC in March 2002, I was not only awestruck by the...
28 April 2017
Cassini's first dive between Saturn and its rings
... back in contact with mission control, is in the process of beaming back science and engineering data, via NASA's Deep Space Network Goldstone Complex in California's Mojave Desert. During this final chapter, Cassini will make a total of 22 dives...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... exploration. In addition to being the technological prototype for the 64 m dishes of NASA’s Deep Space Network, Parkes has played a vital role in various NASA and ESA deep space missions and also in the Apollo lunar programme. A view of the Parkes...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
.... The MarCO CubeSats will perform a Mars-flyby and operate as telecom relays, transmitting data through the Deep Space Network (DSN) of InSight’s critical Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) phase. The MarCO CubeSats will be carrying a whole...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
.... MOM Project Director Subbiah Arunan had earlier stated that nearly 250 NASA staffers at the three deep-space networks had been earmarked specially to monitor MOM’s Mars orbit insertion on 24 September. “Such is the high level of collaboration...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
... communicate with it, and not rely solely of the support of NASA’s Deep Space Network, as in the original plan. This meant that ESA had to build a large deep space antenna somewhere in the southern hemisphere and develop sophisticated instrumentation...
