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How might lasers revolutionize deep space communications? NASA will test high-bandwidth laser (or optical)...
How can astronauts in space communicate with each other if their communications channels were to go down or become...
Replacing a space station communications antenna, another round of testing for our lunar roving robot, and...
Jeff Koenig and Carlos Torres  at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California prepare to support...
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will monitor the landing of NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly...
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will monitor the landing of NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly...
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will monitor the landing of NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly...
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will monitor the landing of NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly...
The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver is shown at NASA's...
The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver can be easily...
Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) serves as the Program Office for all of NASA’s space communications...
B-roll for media and public use. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment marked a historic...
This image shows the Modulated X-ray Source, a key component in NASA’s first-ever demonstration of X-ray...
Mike Yettaw and Donavon Hoover providing air-to-ground communications to the Johnson Space Center during STS-92.
The communication antenna is used primarily for test flights to receive downlink flight data and video from test...
The Triplex 7M telemetry antenna at far right and the two radars to the left are a few assets of the Dryden...
Jesus Vazquez, Zach Springer and Sonja Belcher, from left, are at stations in the Mobile Operations Facility 5 at...
Kevin Knutson sits at a station in the main Blue Control Room at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in...
The communication antenna is used primarily for test flights to receive downlink flight data and video from test...
The Dryden Aeronautical Test Range at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California uses radars, such as...
The Dryden Aeronautical Test Range at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California uses radars, such as...
The Dryden Aeronautical Test Range staff at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California monitor all...
Sonja Belcher and Zach Springer show some of what they would do during a flight mission at a Telemetry and Radar...
S117-E-06733 (9 June 2007) --- Astronaut Steven Swanson, STS-117 mission specialist, uses a communication system on...