Selkirk Alliance for Science has invited Sue Linch, spacecraft manager for the Lockheed Martin Lunar Exploration Campaign, to ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA's Deep Space Optical ...

New Horizons just completed its first successful stellar navigation test in deep space, a groundbreaking moment for ...

NASA’s New Horizons successfully used stellar parallax from deep space to pinpoint its location, pioneering a new method of ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ...

The most precise clock ever flown in space, NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock, could improve spacecraft navigation throughout the solar system. This illustration shows the spacecraft carrying the ...

NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock, seen here in an artist's illustration, is testing new technology for deep-space navigation. (Image credit: NASA) ...

NASA may have just improved our potential for deep space exploration by inventing a new type of autonomous space navigation. Known as Station Explorer for X-Ray Timing and Navigation Technology ...

Today's deep space missions use navigation based on Earthbound stations, such as NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) or ESA's European Space Tracking (ESTRACK) network.

So, how exactly will we steer ships toward specific destinations in deep space? Let’s just say we’re going to steal a page from Christopher Columbus’s book — the one about celestial ...

Measuring time is a crucial part of navigation – particularly in space, where exacting precision is called for. The DSAC is poised to make a change that will aid future deep space missions.

NASA is preparing to fly a Deep Space Atomic Clock, or DSAC, demonstration that will revolutionize the way we conduct deep-space navigation by enabling a spacecraft to calculate its own timing and ...