{"id":194537,"date":"2024-08-14T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T14:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/lunar-exploration-ground-sites-will-enhance-the-near-space-networks-communications-services"},"modified":"2024-08-14T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T14:22:28","slug":"lunar-exploration-ground-sites-will-enhance-the-near-space-networks-communications-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/lunar-exploration-ground-sites-will-enhance-the-near-space-networks-communications-services","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Exploration Ground Sites will Enhance the Near Space Network\u2019s Communications Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lunar-exploration-ground-sites-will-enhance-the-near-space-networks-communications-services3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s LEGS can do more than help Earthlings move about the planet. Three Lunar Exploration Ground Sites, or LEGS, will enhance the Near Space Network\u2019s communications services and support of NASA\u2019s Artemis campaign.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program maintains the agency\u2019s two primary communications networks\u2014the Deep Space Network and the Near Space Network, which enable satellites in space to send data back to Earth for investigation and discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Using antennas around the globe, these networks capture signals from satellites, collecting data and enabling navigation engineers to track the mission. For the first Artemis mission, these networks worked in tandem to support the mission as it completed its 25-day journey around the moon. They will do the same for the upcoming Artemis II mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s LEGS can do more than help Earthlings move about the planet. Three Lunar Exploration Ground Sites, or LEGS, will enhance the Near Space Network\u2019s communications services and support of NASA\u2019s Artemis campaign. NASA\u2019s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program maintains the agency\u2019s two primary communications networks\u2014the Deep Space Network and the Near Space Network, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}