13 February 2024
Thales Alenia Space to provide comms for planetary defence mission
... Surveyor spacecraft. The S-band Transponders are the units in charge of receiving the telecommands sent from NASA’s Deep Space Network, and transmitting the spacecraft’s telemetries back to Earth, as well as the ranging signals used to measure the...
04 December 2017
After 37 years, Voyager 1 fires up dormant thrusters
... pulses, the team waited 19 hours and 35 minutes as the signal travelled through space to reach an antenna in Goldstone, California, that is part of NASA's Deep Space Network. Thankfully for those involved, the test was a success. "The Voyager team...
18 October 2021
NASA's Lucy mission launches, encounters problem with solar panel
... Lucy throughout its entire 6.4-billion-kilometre, 12-year journey through space as it heads out to explore Jupiter’s elusive Trojan asteroids....to Earth from its own antenna to NASA’s Deep space Network. The spacecraft is now traveling at roughly 108...
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
... to launch in 2019, NASA has agreed to contribute a laser retroreflector array (LRA) for ground tracking and to provide Deep Space Network support for this nonprofit venture. While already formal partners, NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration...
01 February 2019
First private spacecraft gearing up for Moon landing
... last year. As part of the deal NASA contributed a laser retroreflector array to aid with ground tracking and Deep Space Network support to aid in mission communication. Once obtained, the data will be made publicly available through NASA’s Planetary...
March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
... world, and this increased the level of tension in the operations team. Waiting for a signal Two NASA Deep Space Network 70 m antennas - Goldstone in California and Canberra in Australia - were pointed to the place in the sky where Rosetta was...
