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NASA Funds Laser Communications Tech with Small Business

January 10, 2024

Kelly M. Matter

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. Laser, or optical, communications provide missions with increased data rates – meaning that missions using laser technology can send and…
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Deep Space Network, jet propulsion laboratory, NASA History, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Tech Industry, Tech News

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

December 22, 2023

Naomi Hartono

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. In continuous operations since 1963, the DSN is what makes it possible for NASA to communicate with spacecraft at or beyond the…
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NASA’s Tech Demo Streams First Video From Deep Space via Laser

December 18, 2023

Naomi Hartono

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. 11 from a record-setting 19 million miles away (31 million kilometers, or about 80 times the…
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NASA’s Space Station Laser Comm Terminal Achieves First Link

December 13, 2023

Katherine Schauer

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. NASA’s LCRD (Laser Communications Relay Demonstration) and the new space station demonstration, ILLUMA-T (Integrated LCRD Low Earth Orbit User Modem and…
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Ham Radio in Space: Engaging with Students Worldwide for 40 Years

November 29, 2023

Andrea Lloyd

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…
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Psyche Mission, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Operations Mission Directorate, Space Technology Mission Directorate, Tech Demo Missions, Tech Industry, Tech News

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

November 16, 2023

Anthony Greicius

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. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data fromnearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) away – about 40…
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Volunteers Worldwide Successfully Tracked NASA’s Artemis I Mission

November 15, 2023

Katherine Schauer

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…
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Communicating and Navigating with Missions, goddard space flight center, Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy (OTPS), Space Communications & Navigation Program, Tech Industry, Tech News, Technology for Space Travel

NASA Improves GIANT Optical Navigation Technology for Future Missions

October 25, 2023

Karl B. Hille

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.
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Communicating and Navigating with Missions, General, goddard space flight center, ILLUMA-T, Laser Communications Relay, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Communications Technology, Tech Industry, Tech News

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

October 25, 2023

Kendall Murphy

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. The ILLUMA-T (Integrated Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal) payload is…
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Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Communications Technology, Tech Industry, Tech News

SCaN STEM Navigation Activities

September 28, 2023

Catherine G. Manning

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. We’ll use simplified, real-world examples supplied by navigation engineers to delve deep into the exciting world of space exploration.…
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NASA Funds Laser Communications Tech with Small Business

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

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

NASA’s Space Station Laser Comm Terminal Achieves First Link

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

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

Volunteers Worldwide Successfully Tracked NASA’s Artemis I Mission

NASA Improves GIANT Optical Navigation Technology for Future Missions

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

SCaN STEM Navigation Activities

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