Five asteroids will fly past Earth between July 8 and July 16, albeit at safe distances, according to a dashboard run by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The trajectories of the asteroids, of sizes varying between 50 and 240 feet in diameter, are monitored by the JPL. The first asteroid 2024 MT1 will pass at …
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, the farthest man-made object in space, has been sending back “incoherent” data back to mission controllers since November 2023. The space agency on Thursday said it identified what issue is causing the pioneering spacecraft to send back “nonsense” to Earth. According to NASA, the issue seems to be with the flight …
Deep Space Station 13 at NASA’s Goldstone complex in California – part of the agency’s Deep Space Network – is an experimental antenna that has been retrofitted with an optical terminal. In a first, this proof of concept received both radio frequency and laser signals from deep space at the same time. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s …
Capable of receiving both radio frequency and optical signals, the DSN’s hybrid antenna has tracked and decoded the downlink laser from DSOC, aboard NASA’s Psyche mission. An experimental antenna has received both radio frequency and near-infrared laser signals from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft as it travels through deep space. This shows it’s possible for the giant …