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

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Moon 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 tracking

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telemetry and science data to
Earth. Services from both

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networks are integrated at
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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The INCO console is tasked with
managing the communication

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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 back

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from it, receive video and
pictures from it.

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The Orion spacecraft is launching
from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in

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Florida aboard the Space Launch
System rocket known as SLS. Close

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to Earth it will receive
communications and tracking

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support from the Near Space
Network, a global system of

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ground antennas and satellites
that provide either direct to Earth

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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 5 and Delta 4.

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From a communications
perspective, the early phases of

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

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covered by a new communication
system ground station called

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Launch Communication Segment, or
LCS. Once SLS has jettison the

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vehicles will transition over to
TDRS communications. Orion

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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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or 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 communication support as

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the spacecraft orbits the Moon,
similar to its role in the

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Apollo days. The Deep

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Space Network antennas were used
during the Apollo program to

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tracks the missions, the Apollo
missions, has they left near

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space, which is about the
geosynchronous orbit, around

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25.000 kilometers above us and
moved on to the Moon and then in

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orbit around the Moon. But we
would help the Apollo spacecraft

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do navigation we do
communications to and from the

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earth to the spacecraft, which
included the videos that you see

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of the astronauts on the Moon.
The Deep Space Network it exists

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today it can support missions at
the Moon it will continue to

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support Artemis II, Artemis III,
with the first astronauts

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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 of 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,

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bringing the next humans to the
lunar surface and eventually to Mars.