1 00:00:05,910 --> 00:00:08,840 NASA's Artemis I mission is making its way to the 2 00:00:08,900 --> 00:00:12,788 Moon starting a new era of lunar exploration. Using communications 3 00:00:12,847 --> 00:00:16,436 and navigation services from the Near Space Network based at 4 00:00:16,496 --> 00:00:19,726 NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and the Deep Space 5 00:00:19,785 --> 00:00:23,015 Network based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the 6 00:00:23,075 --> 00:00:26,843 Artemis I mission will be able to communicate critical tracking 7 00:00:26,903 --> 00:00:30,192 telemetry and science data to Earth. Services from both 8 00:00:30,252 --> 00:00:34,200 networks are integrated at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. 9 00:00:34,890 --> 00:00:39,851 The INCO console is tasked with managing the communication 10 00:00:39,936 --> 00:00:45,239 systems on Orion, making sure that we can send commands to the 11 00:00:45,325 --> 00:00:50,799 spacecraft to tell it what to do, receive telemetry and data back 12 00:00:50,885 --> 00:00:54,649 from it, receive video and pictures from it. 13 00:00:55,380 --> 00:00:59,111 The Orion spacecraft is launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in 14 00:00:59,175 --> 00:01:03,357 Florida aboard the Space Launch System rocket known as SLS. Close 15 00:01:03,421 --> 00:01:06,766 to Earth it will receive communications and tracking 16 00:01:06,831 --> 00:01:10,369 support from the Near Space Network, a global system of 17 00:01:10,433 --> 00:01:14,486 ground antennas and satellites that provide either direct to Earth 18 00:01:14,551 --> 00:01:17,060 communications or relay communications. 19 00:01:17,790 --> 00:01:21,325 The NSN or the Near Space Network is an integrated network 20 00:01:21,386 --> 00:01:25,227 that provides RF radio frequency and terrestrial communications 21 00:01:25,288 --> 00:01:28,458 to both NASA and non-NASA spaceflight missions. They 22 00:01:28,519 --> 00:01:32,055 support human spaceflight missions, like Artemis, but they 23 00:01:32,116 --> 00:01:35,957 also support the launch vehicles like the Atlas 5 and Delta 4. 24 00:01:36,018 --> 00:01:39,310 From a communications perspective, the early phases of 25 00:01:39,371 --> 00:01:43,029 mission pre-launch and launch in early orbit are going to be 26 00:01:43,090 --> 00:01:46,747 covered by a new communication system ground station called 27 00:01:46,808 --> 00:01:50,649 Launch Communication Segment, or LCS. Once SLS has jettison the 28 00:01:50,710 --> 00:01:54,307 vehicles will transition over to TDRS communications. Orion 29 00:01:54,368 --> 00:01:57,965 itself will remain on TDRS for roughly two and a half hours 30 00:01:58,026 --> 00:02:01,683 into the flight or after that transition handover to the DSN 31 00:02:01,744 --> 00:02:03,330 or the Deep Space Network. 32 00:02:04,650 --> 00:02:08,337 The Deep Space Network consists of three global antennas that 33 00:02:08,398 --> 00:02:12,267 can communicate with spacecraft far into the galaxy. The network 34 00:02:12,327 --> 00:02:15,834 will serve as Artemis I's primary communication support as 35 00:02:15,894 --> 00:02:19,219 the spacecraft orbits the Moon, similar to its role in the 36 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:20,550 Apollo days. The Deep 37 00:02:20,550 --> 00:02:24,746 Space Network antennas were used during the Apollo program to 38 00:02:24,813 --> 00:02:28,806 tracks the missions, the Apollo missions, has they left near 39 00:02:28,874 --> 00:02:32,529 space, which is about the geosynchronous orbit, around 40 00:02:32,597 --> 00:02:36,860 25,000 kilometers above us and moved on to the Moon and then in 41 00:02:36,928 --> 00:02:41,124 orbit around the Moon. But we would help the Apollo spacecraft 42 00:02:41,192 --> 00:02:44,576 do navigation we do communications to and from the 43 00:02:44,644 --> 00:02:48,907 earth to the spacecraft, which included the videos that you see 44 00:02:48,975 --> 00:02:53,239 of the astronauts on the Moon. The Deep Space Network it exists 45 00:02:53,307 --> 00:02:57,435 today it can support missions at the Moon it will continue to 46 00:02:57,503 --> 00:03:01,293 support Artemis II, Artemis III, with the first astronauts 47 00:03:01,361 --> 00:03:02,850 returning to the Moon. 48 00:03:02,850 --> 00:03:06,558 The Near Space Network and the Deep Space Network have a 49 00:03:06,625 --> 00:03:10,400 storied legacy of supporting Moon bound missions. To this 50 00:03:10,466 --> 00:03:14,108 day, space communications and navigation are central to 51 00:03:14,175 --> 00:03:18,215 communicating and tracking all missions from near-Earth to as 52 00:03:18,281 --> 00:03:22,188 far as interstellar space. Now as Artemis I journeys to the 53 00:03:22,255 --> 00:03:25,963 Moon, NASA sets its sights on the future of exploration, 54 00:03:26,030 --> 00:03:30,600 bringing the next humans to the lunar surface and eventually to Mars.