For a human, turning 43 might not be a big deal. But for an antenna that’s named Deep Space Station 43, well, turning the same age as your ‘designation’ is a little more special.
Spacecraft never sleep, they don’t take public holidays or celebrate the festive season – so neither do our team at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC)
Fresh from showing the world the first close encounter images with Pluto last month, our Deep Space Communication Complex in Canberra welcomed the newest member of its dish family to the facility today.
Get excited! The New Horizons spacecraft is ready to rendezvous with Pluto and send back the first ever images of the dwarf planet. Here's how it works.
Great minds from NASA, Johns Hopkins and the CSIRO are agonising over the New Horizons mission to find out more about Pluto. Seems like they should have spoken to these young students, they seem to know all about Pluto.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is just 20 days away from its encounter Pluto, and our Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex will be on hand to help.
Fifty years ago, speaking on the value of space exploration, the then Prime Minister of Australia, (Sir) Robert Menzies, in […]
Exactly 5 years to the day from its original ground-breaking ceremony in 2010, the newest antenna dish in NASA’s Deep Space […]
Our Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex just received a signal, sent at the speed of light, from 4.8 billion kilometres […]
I guess we all love to sleep in on a Sunday morning, maybe just snoozing under the doona, laying there […]
The return to Earth in June 2010 of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa spacecraft over the South Australian […]
UPDATE 16/03/2015: Our Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) continues to provide tracking support to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta […]
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