Sixty Years in Canberra: NASA’s Deep Space Network

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Monika Luabeya Apr 08, 2025 Deep Space Station 43 (DSS-43), a 230-foot-wide (70-meter-wide) radio antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, is seen in this March 4, 2020, image. DSS-43 was more than six times as sensitive as the original antenna at the Canberra complex, so it could communicateContinue Reading

NASA’s First Flight With Crew Important Step on Long-term Return to the Moon, Missions to Mars

The Artemis II test flight will be NASA’s first mission with crew under Artemis. Astronauts on their first flight aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft will confirm all of the spacecraft’s systems operate as designed with crew aboard in the actual environment of deep space.  Through the Artemis campaign, NASA will send astronauts to explore the MoonContinue Reading