"I'm not sure who thought it was a good idea to put up CubeSats with Artemis I."

DSN needs more bandwidth to handle everything they want to throw at it, but isn’t getting the budget

  • Sigmatics
    41·
    10 months ago

    Why would they? They aren’t using the infrastructure

    • Senshi@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      Whenever a space agency affiliated with NASA needs to use the DSN for one of their missions, NASA accommodates and grants usage of it. And obviously, the mission agency pays for this usage out of their own mission budget. This goes the other way around as well. Since 2007, the DSN is closely partnered with ESTRACK, which is ESA’s antenna network. There also are cooperations with JAXA and ISRO ( Japan and India). Sometimes their networks can help fill coverage gaps or offer better bandwidths. Global cooperation really has its benefits.