NASA's Deep Space Network, an array of giant radio antennas, allows agency missions to track, send commands to, and receive scientific data from spacecraft venturing to the moon and beyond.

A crane lowers the 112-foot-wide (34-meter-wide) steel framework for the Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23) reflector dish into ...

NASA's global Deep Space Network ensures that communication with the spacecraft and probes is successful, no matter where ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech A crane lowers the 112-foot-wide (34-meter-wide) steel framework for the Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23) reflector dish into ...

Yet the offer is reaching nearly full capacity. To give a breath of air to the three deep-space antennas in its global ground station network (Estrack), the European Space Agency started a vast ...

It’s also home to the agency’s Deep Space Network (DSN), a web of giant radio antennas used to communicate with space missions. Established in the late 1950s and early 1960s, NASA’s DSN ...

In this way relatively huge reflectors can be built in space, with easy folding and very little weight. The linked article describes the antenna as spherical and its accompanying photograph ...

With more than 17 years of experience at NASA, Lindsai Bland has been an integral part of the agency, contributing to multiple Earth ...