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Demonstrating autonomous navigation, the Lunar Node 1 experiment, or LN-1, is a radio beacon designed to support...
This time-exposure picture of the asteroid Gaspra and background stars is one of four optical navigation images made...
iss056e049856 (June 28, 2018) --- Astronaut Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) calibrates and operates...
NASA Galileo spacecraft, now in orbit around Jupiter, returned this optical navigation image June 3, 1996, showing...
The Mars 2020 mission is facing the most challenging landing yet on the Red Planet. It will touch down on Feb. 18,...
Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) serves as the Program Office for all of NASA’s space communications...
Imagine a technology that would allow space travelers to transmit gigabytes of data per second over interplanetary...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Cape Canaveral Lighthouse stands in the midst of space-age structures, a monolith born in...
NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this picture on its way to a new orbit, at an altitude of about 30,000 miles (48,300...
On the second day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, Orion used its optical navigation camera to snap black and...
Imagine a technology that would allow space travelers to transmit gigabytes of data per second over interplanetary...
Orion’s black-and-white optical navigation camera captured this view of the Moon on the fourth day of the Artemis I...
The G-IV aircraft flies overhead in the Mojave Desert near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards,...
On the second day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, Orion used its optical navigation camera to snap black and...
This mosaic of images from the Navigation Camera Navcam on NASA Mars rover Curiosity shows the scene from the rover...
Masten Space Systems employees prepare its rocket to flight test NASA -licensed Psionic navigation doppler lidar...
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard left Navigation Camera (Navcam). The camera is...
NASA photographer James Ross monitors the Airborne Location Integrating Geospatial Navigation System (ALIGNS) from...
Masten Space Systems vertical takeoff vertical landing rocket launched September 10, 2020 to flight test...
This image of the hole drilled by NASA's Perseverance rover during its first sample-collection attempt was imaged by...
A small piece of foreign object debris (FOD) is seen in footage from the navigation camera of NASA's Ingenuity Mars...
Using the navigation cameras on its mast, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took these images of clouds just after sunset...
Using the navigation cameras on its mast, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took these images of clouds just after sunset...
art001e000342 (Nov. 21, 2022) – On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, Orion’s optical navigation camera...