It was supposed to deploy five days after launch, but the antenna became stuck at the top of the spacecraft and couldn’t be released from its mounting bracket. The Juice spacecraft has small ...

When NASA’s Psyche mission launched in October of last year, it had a special passenger on board: a test of a new communications system using lasers, named Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC).

ESA fired a ‘non-explosive actuator’ in stuck bracket of the ESA JUICE spacecraft's RIME antenna to jar in loose. Mission controllers have been trouble shooting the antenna deployment for 3 weeks.

It was picked up by the Deep Space Network, NASA's international array of giant radio antennas. NASA on Friday said it had lost contact with Voyager 2, located nearly 12.4 billion miles from Earth.

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.

Space Systems Command said Monday it awarded contracts to two firms — Auria, formerly Boecore, and Sphinx Defense — to ...

Primary thrusters carefully orient the spacecraft so it can keep its antenna pointed at Earth. This ensures that the probe can send back data it collects from its unique perspective 15.5 billion ...

The antenna on Earth responsible for sending commands to both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 will be offline for several months. Deep Space Station 43, a 230-foot-wide antenna in Australia, will be ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) beamed Strauss’s The Blue Danube into deep space as a musical message to aliens.

Decades in the making, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or LISA, could revolutionize our understanding of the universe through its detections of gravitational waves. This is your in-the ...

The acronym that LISA stands for is a bit of a mouthful – Laser Interferometer Space Antenna – but in essence, the space probes will detect and measure gravitational waves originating from ...