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the important #ArtemisII numbers from #NASA’s #DSN 🎉 👀
RANGE
412.00 thousand km
ROUND-TRIP LIGHT TIME
2.75 sec
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DSS-43 & DSS-34 are both communicating with #Artemis on S-band:
DSS-43 has downlink @ 3Mb/sec and -110 dBm
DSS-34 has downlink and uplink
(not shown: at the time this screenshot was taken DSS-34 had downlink @ 3Mb/sec and -110 dBm & it’s uplink was transmitting @ 0.2 kW
fantastic work by everyone out at #CDSCC and the rest of the DSN 👏👏👏
if the #NASAsocial folks haven’t secretly arranged for a reconditioned #Hasselblad 500EL camera ( #Apollo-flown if possible) loaded with actual film to be on board #Orion for the #ArtemisII mission to snap an “ #Earthrise II” image I’ll be quite disappointed 🛰️📷🌖🌏
oh well done, that journalist!
she asks, deadpan(ish): “With regards to the troubleshooting of the space toilet… on a priority scale would you say that this was a number one or a number two priority?” 👏👏👏 👩🚀💩
#SpacePoop
#SpaceJokes
#NASA
#ArtemisII
#Artemis
ETA: I went back & re-watched the NASA news conference recording & it was Loren Grush from Bloomberg (& elsewhere) who wrote the book The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts 👩🚀 💁♀️
her parents were both NASA engineers who worked on the Shuttle Program (including STS-107 😢)
it looks like DSS-43 & DSS-34 out at #CDSCC^ are setting up to communicate with #ArtemisII during their ##TLI burn @ 10:49 local time (AEDT)… 👀
ETA: it looks like the DSN will just be watching & waiting as #Orion has switched back to #TDRS for the TLI burn – I’m guessing DSN is pointed & tracking Orion on standby in case they’re needed (🤞 not)
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html
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^ the #Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
even the top leadership of such renowned radical left-wing organisations as… ⚹checks notes⚹… the US military… are too woke for the leopards to abstain from eating their faces
I guess you don’t want to leave anyone in positions of power who might (conceivably) push back ever-so-slightly when you next want to do war crimes…
Hegseth asks Army chief of staff to step down
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2026-04-02/army-general-randy-george-retirement-21263527.html
I just learned of the existence of the #FeierabendHammer and feel like it’s probably relevant to some of your interests…
(it translates as “after-work hammer” 🙃)
((I’m not surprised this is a German innovation, but kind of surprised that I haven’t seen them here in Aus))
(((I do feel like the design could be modified to still pull nails but as I’m not much of a “bier-trinker” 🤔 I may be missing the point… 🤪)))
you can see what’s happening on the #DSN Now website, part of #NASA’s #EyesOn visualisation tools
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html
antennas showing “ART2” are currently in direct comms with #ArtemisII & antennas showing “DSN” are mostly^ tasked to #Artemis mission support but not currently communicating with the spacecraft
– antennas with “squiggly lines” going in both directions are both transmitting & receiving data (Tx & Rx)
– antennas with a squiggly line going in one direction is currently either transmitting or receiving data
– antennas with a sine wave line have carrier lock but aren’t transmitting or receiving (not shown)
– details about the comms for the selected antenna are shown in the panel at the bottom of the page
you can see in the attached pic that antennas DSS-54 & DSS-56 at #MDSCC (the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex) are currently communicating with ArtemisII – 54 is both Tx & Rx on S-band & 56 is Rx on S-band and data rates look great
^ I say “mostly” ‘coz “DSN” usually means testing or maintaining – one or two antennas may be undergoing maintenance atm rather than supporting ArtemisII, I don’t have complete visibility of the antenna schedule 💁♀️
comms will switch over from #TDRS to the #DeepSpaceNetwork soon – sending good vibes to [@]nascom1 & my other friends in #DSN spacecraft ops out at the #CDSCC in Tidbinbilla who are about to take the reins 💕 🖖
you can dive into some amazing historical skeets & tweets from [@]nascom1 over at https://bsky.app/profile/nascom1.bsky.social & https://x.com/nascom1
