Here’s how it works. Long-distance phone calls have nothing on NASA's Deep Space Network. Three stations scattered around the world make it possible to communicate with spacecraft as they ...

A diagram illustrating the distance record ... while simultaneously sending the same data to NASA’s Deep Space Network via radio. For context, Netflix recommends 25 Mbps to stream the service ...

a key system often referred to as the agency’s “eyes”: the Deep Space Network. The largest and most sensitive telecommunications system on the planet, the Deep Space Network, or DSN ...

Both of those missions, indeed all deep space programs, depend on reliable communication, or they will fail. It is imperative that we fund the communication network that will allow these efforts ...

NASA officials sounded an alarm Tuesday about the agency's Deep Space Network, a collection of antennas in California, Spain, and Australia used to maintain contact with missions scattered across ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has taken the next step toward a new generation of Deep Space Network antennas. A $40.7 million contract with General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies, San Jose, Calif., ...

Spacecraft communicating through DTN could also alleviate traffic on NASA’s Deep Space Network, a collection of ground-based radio antennas used to communicate with space probes. Some say the ...

Now, preparations have begun on its fifth as NASA works to increase the network's capacity. NASA's Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia celebrated its 60th anniversary on March 19 ...

The Deep Space Network (DSN) listens to more than 40 missions in our Solar System, including the Voyager spacecraft adrift in interstellar space. Now the DSN’s 13 antennas at three sites around ...

Update for 1:30 p.m. ET: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) issued a statement on Twitter that they have picked up a signal from Voyager 2 using the agency's Deep Space Network which is ...