NASA’s Infrastructure Crisis, Explained | WSJ

The Deep Space Network, NASA’s main communications infrastructure, is overburdened. Spacecraft billions of miles away rely on this network of giant satellite dishes to communicate with Earth. NASA officials are worried about the network’s ability to support future missions, as the agency pivots toward extended human exploration of the moon.
WSJ explains how NASA’s infrastructure got to this critical stage - and what it’ll take to fix it.
Chapters:
0:00 NASA’s infrastructure problem
0:34 How the DSN works
1:50 The impact
3:39 The problem
4:47 Potential solutions
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[@breadbot999]

When you realise they budget for space exploration is not even a fraction of the military budget, you know something is off

[@Cupid-Stunt]

Or you know you live in the US?

[@luv-nnd]

You do realize Biden administration simply gave away 80++ billions to Ukraine, you know taxpayers are screwed.

[@marktienter1017]

That is so true! We are fighting a war where no one can be the winner. When will they get it?

[@GamerbyDesign]

They spent 10 years building the JWST to be hampered by bandwidth.

[@flemlion13]

They should build an intermediate space network, the moon and L2 should not need the DSN

[@Denverian]

and what does the intermediate space network communicate with on Earth? Shallow Space Network aka SSN?

[@flemlion13]

Watch the video @Denverian Seems they are already trying to build it as much as funding allows. And the DSN isn't in space either, is it, it's on terra firma of course

[@_TeXoN_]

Thats what they do. The program is called LEGS and there is already a 20m antenna in White Sands with plans to build another in Matjiesfontein, South Africa and in Australia. They will be part of the Near Space Network.

[@zinjanthropus322]

​@@flemlion13And as usual they always choose the solution they can't afford.

[@byron821]

They have an intermediate network, it was called the Near Earth Network (NEN) now called the "Near Space Network" and includes the orbiting Satellites of the Space Network... formally known as TDRS. The Near Space Network includes ground antenna stations located around the globe. www.nasa.gov/near-space-network/

[@rayoflight62]

Well, they have already taken action by building a lower spec Lunar network, so they can offload much of the workload that doesn't require the high sensitivity communication dishes...

[@libiroli]

Props for proudly rocking that gap

[@Admiralty86]

His drinking-straw game is on point.

[@EvanBoyar]

I'm shocked that the operations facility appears to have movie-style "command center" lighting (dim, with eerie blue lights)

[@libiroli]

Yeah, it looks cool but working in dim light puts a bigger on the eyes. I wonder why they do it...

[@EvanBoyar]

@@libiroli I'm betting they have a "the media is here" setting on their lights

[@forloop7713]

Movies coppied NASA's command center

[@lokesh303101]

Just go with the sensors and overlay Antenna Dish with the Aluminum Reflectors for Ugradation.

[@g0ast]

We need more Starbucks on the moon. They have free WiFi.

[@henrybrandt1057]

Seems like a small fraction of the cost of the Senate Launch System could easily fund the needed expansion and upgrade of the DSN.

[@axxexxxcxrxxx803]

you gotta put stationary data transfer nodes between. keep em in place with solar sails.

[@benjaminrickdonaldson]

NASA doesn't have enough funding, god please congress just boost their budget because their work is super important!!

[@bobthemagicmoose]

I'm getting mixed signals all over this video: It's a crisis - because things are working for longer than expected? "We need budget" but they also are constructing a new network to handle non-deep space traffic. I think a more neutral tone would be more appropriate: "here's the state of the DSN and it's finances".

[@alexmodnueldo8493]

Haha "mixed signals"

[@alexeykulikov2739]

Who would watch it if there’s no sense of urgency?

[@rorytribbet6424]

There is weird energy in the video throughout. Don’t like it lol

[@rorytribbet6424]

@@alexeykulikov2739yes. But that is why we are commenting haha

[@marktienter1017]

Which one of the astronauts is going to go? Tell the other one to go fly a kite😅

[@Cupid-Stunt]

Kessler effect?

[@PlayJasch]

We will add Wifi to space in no time.

[@ihmpall]

But we spend a trillion on bombs

[@Bfould3120]

Private satellite companies (like Space X) should be required to relay DSN signals from space to the control center. Space X has over 5,000 satellites laid out in a grid to cover the planet. (A planet sized satellite dish) Simply add a small dish facing space to each satellite and use the huge number of satellites to collect strong DSN signal. Then use Starlinks network to transmit this signal to the control center. Also finish to project from 2010 too.

[@DJ-bh1ju]

Pretty sure SpaceX is looking at something like that already. They're gearing up for lunar and Mars missions and already planning their own comms network. Especially when Starship is in service and sending up the highly capable version 2 sats, it shouldn't be much of a stretch to scoop up transmissions from other projects. Lotta surplus capability.

[@ChainSawMann3d]

nasa budget should increased to our military budget atleast by 90%

[@drkdncr]

Which astronauts? When was the last time a human ever went to space?

[@haiacninc]

Well with all genius in Nasa compared to uhmm #wsj reporters yea Nasa got this it infrastructure need update not in crisis.

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The dude is STILL growing! Just a kid and look at what he has accomplished. You should go find a FAIRaday cage and imprison yourself in it for a day as punishment for that.

[@marktienter1017]

Maybe we should get the enterprise. Lol.

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See u next universe visit

[@sethaost4212]

Remember the movie WALL·E all the satellites 🛰️ we still going to die we need two worlds or something

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[@ILovePancakes24]

You could always raise funds by selling off parts of space.

[@johnblackhorn]

You can’t own space my friend

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@@johnblackhorn Own parts of it...and yes you can. You'll see when we are fighting over it.

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[@Z0DI4C]

Jesus. Apollo didn't invent software engineering. Babbage, Lovelace, Von Neumann, Turing et al did. Keep that guy off the air.

[@JackWagonizer]

Contextually, his statement seems to be true from an engineering perspective. According to Wikipedia, Margaret H. Hamilton is the person who came up with the idea of naming the discipline, software engineering, as a way of giving it legitimacy during the Apollo program. Maybe software study and design prior to would've been referred to as computational science instead?

[@kanpakloykan7105]

Nasa has become like his demented uncle that go bummping onto wall, yelling up in the sky for nothing.

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Connect with Startlinks on the ground.

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😮

[@marsspacex6065]

They should focus on switching to laser optical networking. Nasa instead of wasting so much money on SLS rocket it should be upgrading infrastructure.

[@dlewis8405]

GIve SpaceX $100 million and they could put Starlink satellites in Lunar orbit for Artemis. The current satellites can communicate with each other using lasers.

[@brillbond7878]

Oh! "An impact frequency receiver & regeneration advanced signalling chamber" in the spacecraft and antenas should be added..... I suggest a long and high convex paths like roller coster for copper bowled dynamic antenas which are arranged in consecutive ways & rotate by 180° and their movement should be matched with the frequency of signal, velocity, rotation & direction with the space-robot!!!😊 Thanks. Have a good day!!!😊😊😊

[@camgrant1318]

Voyager 1 and 2 side by side could fly freely through that teeth gap

[@globalshiftwilton]

Awful. Do you feel big belittling how someone looks?

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[@wmtrader]

The narrator sounds like she is 14 years old

[@drkdncr]

Prob AI generated like 99% of videos narrated on this platform

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[@JCO2002]

The US won't have to worry about communications with a manned lunar expedition. Starship will eliminate the need when it blows the astronauts to smithereens en route.

[@auro1986]

theh have spacex

[@bizzfo]

Privatize it issue solved. Competition is greater than bureaucracy

[@_TeXoN_]

The problem is that there would be no competition, if DSN handles like 70% of the deep space communication in total and NASA is by far their biggest customer. There are attempts of private companies for deep space communication like Goonhilly or Viratec, but their performance is significantly behind NASA and ESA antennas.

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[@user-no6wh2gm6m]

Really just now i said treat and now there is this word threaten here so now you want to threaten me

[@shadabfariduddin6784]

Ask China to build more quickly

[@omarperezrodriguez1827]

NASA should be abolished

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

Actually stupidity should be abolished. I am not calling you stupid, but your remark shows a lack of grasp or care of science. Do you also think the Earth is flat and that God created it 6000 years ago? That computer or phone you typed your comment in on would not even exist were it not for NASA. And as the famous teacher Jaime Escalante would say... "Have a nice day."

[@omarperezrodriguez1827]

@@cosmicraysshotsintothelight😂 ignorance is bliss

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

@@omarperezrodriguez1827 Yeah, except that isn't the entire saying. Nice try though, you're really on the ball with everything... not.

[@gd_thirtyfour]

You should be abolished

[@axcel_riki]

More more burn money....

[@DipakGotam76239]

Tapaskar🌹🙏🇮🇳 Chinese Space is so much better.

[@behum1776]

God has scripted his sequence already, see you in there everyone we’ll are going together are we?😊

[@SandeepKumar]

Nasa don't need money.. but Ukraine need it 😂 waste money on war

[@BiggMo]

Defund NASA… privatize. Vote smaller government

[@jtgd]

Fund NASA. Competition. Small government can’t manage a nation of 330+ million. Grow up

[@abov2983]

@@jtgd Space X is private and achieves more , grow up kid

[@mugumyapaultheafricannomad9488]

Perhaps a small defund of wars by 2% and give that cash to NASA would be extremely

[@transparent6842]

@@abov2983 hmm who enabled spacex, gave contracts and backs their whole operation(so that they can get investment)?

[@David-wc5zl]

​@@abov2983 This isn't true at all, LOL. You are so lost.

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