In this bonus episode of NASA's The Invisible Network podcast, a NASA subject matter expert answers questions about the Deep Space Network (DSN) submitted on social media.

Bonus - DSN: Your Questions Answered | NASA’s The Invisible Network Podcast

In this final episode of the fifth season of NASA's "The Invisible Network" podcast, we discuss the technologies and capabilities key to the Deep Space Network's future.

28. Deep Space Network - Explore Tomorrow | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

In this fifth episode in the fifth season of NASA's "The Invisible Network" podcast, we discuss a unique educational opportunity that allows students to use a Deep Space Network antenna for real science.

27. Deep Space Network - The Ultimate Classroom | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

In this fourth episode in the fifth season of NASA's "The Invisible Network" podcast, we discuss the unique type of radio science empowered by Deep Space Network antennas.

26. Deep Space Network - Radio Science | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

In this third episode in the fifth season of NASA's "The Invisible Network" podcast, we meet the Mission Interface Managers who furnish missions with Deep Space Network services.

25. Deep Space Network - Negotiators | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

In this second episode in the fifth season of NASA's "The Invisible Network" podcast, we take a tour of the Deep Space Network's worldwide infrastructure.

24. Deep Space Network - Follow the Sun | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

In this first episode in the fifth season of NASA's "The Invisible Network" podcast, we examine the origins, evolution, and basic structure of NASA's Deep Space Network.

23. Deep Space Network - Origins | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

A new season of NASA's The Invisible Network podcast is coming soon! This time around, we'll focus on the communications and navigation services provided by NASA's Deep Space Network. Based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Deep Space Network has a global infrastructure of huge importance to NASA's past, present, and future.

Deep Space Network Season Trailer | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

In this bonus episode of NASA's The Invisible Network podcast, NASA subject matter experts answer questions about the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) submitted on social media.

Bonus - LCRD: Your Questions Answered | NASA’s The Invisible Network Podcast

In this final episode of a five-part series about NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, we look at the future of optical communications technologies at NASA.

22. LCRD - The Future | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

The technologies that allow NASA to talk to and navigate spacecraft are often overlooked — perhaps because they work so well. Join us as we shine a light on the invisible networks that power space science and exploration.

In this fourth episode of a five-part series about NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, we look at the LCRD ground segment, which consists of infrastructure in Hawaii, California, and New Mexico.

21. LCRD - The Design: Ground | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

In this third episode of a five-part series about NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, we look at the LCRD flight payload, which launched on the U.S. Space Force’s Space Test Program Satellite-6 earlier on December 7.

20. LCRD - The Design: Flight | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

In this second episode of an LCRD-focused season of The Invisible Network podcast, we take a look at the reasons NASA is embracing optical communications technologies and what challenges LCRD will overcome.

19. LCRD - The Dream | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Today, Tuesday, December 7, 2021, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Test Program Satellite-6 launched from Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s space coast. The spacecraft contains a revolutionary space communications mission, NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, or LCRD.

18. LCRD - The Launch | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Over five episodes, this new season of The Invisible Network will dive into NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD), which will showcase the benefits of optical communications, which uses infrared lasers instead of radio waves to communicate.

LCRD Season Trailer | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Happy International Podcast Day! The Invisible Network has some exciting things coming up, including seasons about NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration and NASA’s Deep Space Network. In the meantime, you can find all of NASA's out of this world podcasts at nasa.gov/podcasts.

Happy International Podcast Day! The Invisible Network has some exciting things coming up, including seasons about NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration and NASA’s Deep Space Network. In the meantime, you can find all of NASA's out of this world podcasts at <a href="http://nasa.gov/podcasts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nasa.gov/podcasts</a>.

International Podcast Day 2021 | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Each year, NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Internship Project welcomes students of all levels to develop projects of real benefit to the agency while earning real world experience in their fields. In this episode of The Invisible Network podcast, we'll speak with members of 2021's intern cohort at three different NASA centers.

2021 Interns | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

NASA is fostering a commercial space economy. In this episode of "The Invisible Network" podcast, we look at how NASA's LunaNet communications architecture allows industry to participate in Artemis.

17. Commercialization - LunaNet | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

NASA is fostering a commercial space economy. In this episode of "The Invisible Network" podcast, we look at how NASA is working with industry to nurture a space communications marketplace.

16. Commercialization - Marketplace | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

NASA is fostering a commercial space economy. In this episode of "The Invisible Network" podcast, we look at space communications support of the Commercial Crew Program.

15. Commercialization - Crew | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Really like the idea of the podcast and what they talk about but struggling to over look the narrator and the way he presents the show. The topics and deep space communication is probably the most fascinating least talked about aspect of NASA. 

I just can’t get into it.

Great concept!

Loved this podcast, it sheds light on the system powering space program and NASA. Looking forward for more episodes.

Very Informative!

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CubeSats are small satellites, some weighing as little as 3 pounds. They provide opportunities for small-scale research in space, and an avenue for young scientists — some as young as middle school-aged — to see their curiosity take literal flight.

06. Next-Gen | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

The mythic hunter Orion, son of the sea-god Poseidon, was himself mortal, but his godly lineage enabled impossible heroic feats, earning him a place in the night sky as a constellation. NASA has developed its own Orion, a hunter for knowledge not of this Earth: a spacecraft designed for humanity’s return to the Moon and exploration of deep space.

02. Lemnos | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

The technologies that fuel NASA's exploration don't just stay in space. They benefit humanity in everyday life — sometimes in surprising ways, like how a NASA communications engineer helped create a system that freezes bone marrow.

05: Marrow | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Whether you're relying on the careful observations of 1950s amateur astronomers and backyard telescopes or state-of-the-art GPS tracking and navigation technology: knowing where you are in space means needing to know what time it is.

03. Time | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

In the telephone switchboard’s earliest days, the late 1800s, operators served a limited number of customers within their own communities. As telephone use expanded, automation helped switchboards keep up. NASA is working on a similar approach, infusing its satellite networks with a sort of artificial intelligence.

04. Automation | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

In recent years, NASA has renewed its focus on the Moon. Soon, we will look up at the Moon and rediscover a magic first experienced in 1969. It’s a magic that will flow through networks more sophisticated than ever before — an appreciation for the technological wonders that lay ahead, just above and all around us.

07. Hunter-Gatherer | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

"Form follows function" is an oft-cited architectural axiom. In space, form doesn’t necessarily follow function. Human space habitation is rooted, by necessity, in pragmatism. The architectures of Earth won’t work in space, but there is plenty to learn from Earthbound architectural theories as we extend our reach among the stars.

08. Form and Function | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Every summer, fresh faces flood NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. They are the interns. Each new face comes with an idea to share — a contribution to make to the agency. Space Communications and Navigation interns contribute across many diverse disciplines, from cybersecurity to public outreach.

2019 Interns | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Amidst the grandeur of spaceflight, there is a tiny bit of technology that, if not for its major role, might otherwise go unnoticed: distress beacons. This NASA-developed search-and-rescue technology could be life-saving not just for astronauts, but for travelers across the globe as well.

10. 406 MHz | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

For billions of years, the Earth and the Moon have danced together. Since the Apollo era, scientists have used lasers — a technology then in its infancy — to measure their waltz. Lasers have since played increasingly important roles in spaceflight. They may even play a part in keeping the next generation of lunar astronauts connected to home.

11. Reflections | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

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