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NASA's Artemis I mission is
making its way to the moon

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starting a new era of lunar
exploration using communications

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and navigation services from the
Near Space Network. based at

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Center, and the Deep Space

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Network based at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, the

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Artemis I mission will be able
to communicate critical

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tracking, telemetry and science
data to Earth. Services from

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both networks are integrated at
NASA's Johnson Space Center in

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Houston.

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The INCO console is tasked with
managing the communications

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systems on Orion, making sure
that we can send commands to the

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spacecraft to tell it what to
do, receive telemetry and data

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back from it, receive video and
pictures from it.

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The Orion spacecraft is
launching from NASA's Kennedy

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Space Center in Florida aboard
the Space Launch System rocket

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known as SLS. Close to Earth it
will receive communications and

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tracking support from the Near
Space Network, a global system

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of ground antennas and
satellites that provide either

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direct-to-Earth communications
or relay communications.

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The NSN or the Near Space
Network is an integrated network

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that provides RF radio frequency
and terrestrial communications

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to both NASA and non NASA
spaceflight missions. They

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support human spaceflight
missions like Artemis, but they

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also support the launch vehicles
like the Atlas V and Delta IIII

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from a communications
perspective, their early phases

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of mission pre launch and launch
in early orbit are going to be

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covered by a new communications
system ground stations called

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Launch Communications Segment,
or LCS. Once SLS has jettison

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the vehicles will transition
over to TDRS communications.

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Orion itself will remain on TDRS
for roughly two and a half hours

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into the flight or after that
transition handover to the DSN

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with the Deep Space Network.

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The Deep Space Network consists
of three global antennas that

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can communicate with spacecraft
far into the galaxy. The network

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will serve as Artemis I's
primary communications support

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as the spacecraft orbits the
moon, similar to its role in the

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Apollo days.

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The Deep Space Network antennas
were used during the Apollo

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program, to tracks the missions,
the Apollo missions, but we

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would help the Apollo spacecraft
do navigation, we'd do

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communications to and from the
Earth to the spacecraft, which

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included the videos that you see
of the astronauts on the Moon.

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The Deep Space Network it exists
today it can support missions at

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the Moon, it will continue to
support Artemis II, Artemis III

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with the first astronauts
returning to the Moon.

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The Near Space Network and the
Deep Space Network have a

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storied legacy in supporting
Moon-bound missions. To this

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day, space communications and
navigation are central to

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communicating and tracking all
missions from near-Earth to as

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far as interstellar space. Now
as Artemis I journeys to the

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moon, NASA sets its sights on
the future of exploration,