The 30-metre antenna of the DLR Space Operations and Astronaut Training is based on a Cassegrain design and has an elevation / azimuth system for alignment with spacecraft. Originally designed as a ...

A private US company says it has landed a spacecraft close to the Moon's South Pole but fears the machine is not upright. The ...

In order to be able to communicate with spacecraft, antenna systems are needed. The DLR ground station in Weilheim, 60 kilometres south-west of Munich, was established in 1969 (start of construction ...

In this way relatively huge reflectors can be built in space, with easy folding and very little weight. The linked article describes the antenna as spherical and its accompanying photograph ...

The RSS used the high-gain antenna and the spacecraft's communications system to study the physical properties (masses, gravity fields and densities) of the planets and moons; and to determine the ...

NASA is preparing to return two astronauts to Earth after their 10-day mission on board the International Space Station (ISS) ...