18 February 2021
Success for NASA as Perseverance lands on Mars
..., plus the challenges of covid. What an accomplishment.” Perservance’s descent to the planet was monitored by both NASA’s Deep Space Network and it’s two orbiters; the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and the Mars Atmospheric and Volatile EvolutioN...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... function without the assistance of global positioning satellites for navigation and must operate more quickly than deep space network tracking can accommodate. Once docked, the crewed vehicle and robotic vehicle will have to work as an integrated...
23 August 2016
NASA Makes Contact with STEREO-B Spacecraft
NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) has locked in a carrier signal from a scientific ... following an October 2014 loss of communications. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The spacecraft had apparently lost attitude ...
25 September 2019
Spacebit announces agreement to land first UK commercial payload on Moon
...private held UK company, has announced this week at the UK Space Conference 2019 that it has signed a joint agreement with Astrobotic to... as the world's first commercial deep space network service, providing necessary additional capacity over and ...
17 February 2021
Perseverance due to land on Mars tomorrow!
... year to NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Engineers expect additional data to return to Earth directly through NASA’s Deep Space Network and two other Earth-based antennas until shortly before touchdown. It’s important to note that the rover...
04 July 2016
JUNO's orbit insertion phase starts soon!
..., allowing its progress to be monitored by the mission teams at NASA JPL and Lockheed Martin Space Systems via signal reception by Deep Space Network antennas in Goldstone, California, and Canberra, Australia. All of JUNO’s instruments will be turned...
