Space Communications & Navigation Program Archives

NASA Selects Blue Origin as Mars Telecommunications Network Provider – NASA 0

NASA awarded Blue Origin a contract Tuesday to develop the agency’s Mars Telecommunications Network, a next-generation communications system that will enable reliable, high-bandwidth communications and navigation services for current and future Mars missions. The firm-fixed-price contract has a maximum potential value of approximately $700 million to deliver a high-performance Mars telecommunications orbiter to NASA no

NASA Delivers Navigation System for Commercial Lunar Relay – NASA 0
- Artemis, Commercial Space, Communicating and Navigating with Missions, Goddard Space Flight Center, Moon Base, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- August 3, 2026
NASA delivered the NavCube3-mini payload on July 13 to Intuitive Machines for integration into Altus-1, the company’s first lunar relay satellite, marking an important milestone in the development of future lunar communications and navigation services. The lunar relays are designed to enable communications and navigation for astronauts and rovers operating at the agency’s future Moon Base. About half the size of a shoebox and weighing just 3.5 pounds, NavCube3-mini is a compact but powerful navigation
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I Am Artemis: Peter Rossoni 0
- Artemis, Artemis 2, Communicating and Navigating with Missions, Goddard Space Flight Center, I Am Artemis, SCIENCE, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Technology Demonstration
- April 26, 2026
Listen to this audio excerpt from Peter Rossoni, Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System flight manager: Your browser does not support the audio element. As a child, Peter Rossoni watched the Apollo missions launch with his family. In April 2026, he became a part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, helping enable communications as astronauts journeyed
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