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.
The pulsar J2032 was discovered when NASA’s Fermi Space telescope spotted its varying gamma rays.
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 […]
A new antenna at our Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex will make commanding and receiving data from spacecraft located billions of kilometres away across the Solar System even easier. It's commissioning marks the 55th anniversary of a space communication and tracking partnership between Australia and the United States.
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 […]
UPDATE: 25 Sept.14 - NASA's MAVEN and ISRO's MOM spacecraft arrived successfully in orbit and have already been returning science […]
By Glen Nagle CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science It’s funny the things you remember from your childhood. For me, my […]
Bringing sexy back to the future of space travel In the effort to return American astronauts to space by launching […]
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