All-Star Moments in Space Communications and Navigation
How do we get information from missions exploring the cosmos back to humans on Earth? Our space communications and navigation networks – the Near Space Network and the Deep Space Network – bring back science and exploration data daily.
Here are a few of our favorite moments from 2024.
1. Hip-Hop to Deep Space
The stars above and on Earth aligned as lyrics from the song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” by hip-hop artist Missy Elliott were beamed to Venus via NASA’s Deep Space Network. Using a 34-meter (112-foot) wide Deep Space Station 13 (DSS-13) radio dish antenna, located at the network’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California, the song was sent at 10:05 a.m. PDT on Friday, July 12 and traveled about 158 million miles from Earth to Venus — the artist’s favorite planet. Coincidentally, the DSS-13 that sent the transmission is also nicknamed Venus!
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Featuring camera OCs:
- Optical and Trace by @tabieeee
- Cameron by @cosmica-galaxy
- Herodias by @m-passer
- Medic by @thephonemenarentreal
- Magpie by @screenhypnosis
- Cammie, Vester, and Scope by @lens-guy-art
- Deadringer by @withersia
- Natalie Mazurova by @rozalindaart
- Polaroid and Styrofilm by me!
Stresses produced by a contact with a combined normal and tangential load made visible by polarization optics by Reibungsphysik