#Space communications tracking

Our next Exo-llent adventure to Mars

Our Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex will be lending a hand on the Exomars mission, lead by the European Space Agency and Roscosmos.

Watch This Space: Australian technology focal to the world’s largest telescope

Once completed the ‘Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope’ (FAST) will be the biggest telescope in the world, and the eye at its centre was made right here in Australia.

Don’t panic – we’ve found gravitational waves

One of the biggest discoveries in our lifetime has been made which could help scientists answer some of their biggest questions

Why we’ll be monitoring the heavens on Christmas Day

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)

Waking Up to New Horizons

I guess we all love to sleep in on a Sunday morning, maybe just snoozing under the doona, laying there […]

The Adventures of Rosetta and Philae

UPDATE 16/03/2015: Our Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) continues to provide tracking support to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta […]

Mars Served Two New Spacecraft with Help from Aussie Dishes

UPDATE: 25 Sept.14 – NASA’s MAVEN and ISRO’s MOM spacecraft arrived successfully in orbit and have already been returning science […]