{"id":273077,"date":"2024-02-12T08:26:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=326172"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:04:35","slug":"this-impressive-nasa-antenna-wants-to-conquer-deep-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-impressive-nasa-antenna-wants-to-conquer-deep-space\/","title":{"rendered":"This impressive NASA antenna wants to conquer deep space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The NASA<\/strong> has achieved a remarkable achievement in space communication by implementing a new antenna that can receive radio and laser signals<\/strong> from its spacecraft Psyche<\/strong><\/a>, which is on a mission to explore a unique asteroid.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The new antenna, called Deep Space Station 13<\/strong>, is a 34-meter hybrid radiofrequency and optical antenna that has been tracking the laser signals from the NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications<\/strong> (DSOC) technology demonstration since November 2023. The DSOC’s laser transceiver is coupled to the Psyche spacecraft, which was launched on October 13, 2023<\/strong> aboard the SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy<\/strong> rocket<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deep Space Station 13<\/a> is part of NASA’s Deep Space Network<\/strong> (DSN), a network of giant parabolic antennas that communicate with spacecraft through radio waves. However, the new antenna can also receive near-infrared laser signals<\/strong>, which can carry more data and enable new possibilities for space exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This new communication antenna uses a novel optical system to detect laser photons<\/strong> (quantum particles of light). Seven segmented mirrors of great precision, similar to the hexagonal mirrors of the NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope<\/strong><\/a>, are fixed inside the curved surface of the antenna and mimic the light collecting aperture of a 1-meter telescope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As laser photons reach Deep Space Station 13, each mirror reflects the photons and accurately redirects them towards a high-exposure camera<\/strong> fixed to the subreflector of the antenna, suspended above the center of the dish.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Later on, the laser signal collected by the camera is transmitted through an optical fiber that feeds a cryogenically cooled single-photon detector made of semiconductor nanowires. The detector has been designed and built by the Microdevices Laboratory<\/strong> at JPL, and it is identical to the one used at the Palomar Observatory of Caltech<\/strong> in California, which serves as the DSOC’s ground station for downlink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NASA has achieved a remarkable achievement in space communication by implementing a new antenna that can receive radio and laser signals from its spacecraft Psyche, which is on a mission to explore a unique asteroid. The new antenna, called Deep Space Station 13, is a 34-meter hybrid radiofrequency and optical antenna that has been … Continue reading “This impressive NASA antenna wants to conquer deep space”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9256,"featured_media":273079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":2},"categories":[1015],"tags":[4289],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-273077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionnasa-app"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314828,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273077\/revisions\/314828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273077"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=273077"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=273077"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=273077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}