Friday, February 9, 2024

JPL News - Day in Review

NASA's New Experimental Antenna | NASA Awards Inaugural Grants | Space Trivia 
 
Day in Review
Technology
Deep Space Station 13 at NASA's Goldstone complex in California – part of the agency's Deep Space Network – is an experimental antenna that has been retrofitted with an optical terminal.
Capable of receiving both radio frequency and optical signals, the DSN's hybrid antenna has tracked and decoded the downlink laser from DSOC, aboard NASA's Psyche mission. Read More
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JPL Life

The agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is collaborating on three of the 11 projects supported by the grants. Read More

QUIZ


Space Trivia


On Oct. 12, 1994, Magellan became the first spacecraft to do what?


A) Intentionally crash into a planet

B) Orbit Venus 200 times

C) Map Venus' infrared emissions

D) Capture images of volcanoes on another planet


Check Your Answer

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