FILE PHOTO: NASA’s telecommunications community and navigation system, Deep Space Network, celebrated its sixtieth anniversary on December 24.
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NASA’s telecommunications community and navigation system, Deep Space Network, celebrated its sixtieth anniversary on December 24. Started in 1963, the DSN is what makes it potential for NASA to speak with spacecrafts additional away from the moon.
Historic occasions that occurred in 2023 together with the photographs captured by the James Webb telescope, the scientific information despatched again from the Perseverance rover on Mars and the photographs of the South aspect of the moon from the Artemis I mission, have been potential as a result of of the DSN’s massive radio dish antennas.
The DSN additionally supported ISRO throughout India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission in late August this yr.
“The DSN is the heart of NASA – it has the vital job of keeping the data flowing between Earth and space. But to support our growing portfolio of robotic missions, and now the human Artemis missions to the Moon, we need to push forward with the next phase of DSN modernization,” stated Philip Baldwin, the performing director of the community providers division for SCaN at the NASA headquarters in Washington.
NASA has been enhancing the DSN’s capability by including extra dish antennas and upgrading the know-how to help extra spacecrafts and switch extra information from outer area.
One of these new strategies is laser or optical communications which may ship extra information from longer distances.
- NASA’s telecommunications community and navigation system, Deep Space Network, celebrated its sixtieth anniversary on December 24.
- Started in 1963, the DSN is what makes it potential for NASA to speak with spacecrafts additional away from the moon.
- The DSN additionally supported ISRO throughout India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission in late August this yr.
