Direct communication between Earth and Mars can be strongly disturbed and even blocked by the Sun for weeks at a time, cutting off any future human mission to the Red Planet. An ESA engineer working ...

When astronauts land on Mars, a couple of decades from now, perhaps, they’ll need to find a way to communicate — with each other, with equipment on and around the planet, and with mission control back ...

An orbiting NASA spacecraft just starting to study Mars with six science instruments has successfully tested another key part of its payload, a versatile radio for relaying communications with robots ...

July 23 (UPI) --Planned moon and Mars missions require timely communications and navigation systems, which is prompting NASA officials to request ideas via proposals from U.S. firms. NASA on July 7 ...

Proximity-1, a communications protocol developed by the international Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), was instrumental in the success of a recent first-ever demonstration of ...

If you think it’s a pain to get cell reception when you visit your relatives in another state, just imagine trying to communicate with people who are at least 40 million miles away and are constantly ...

The most precise timekeepers ever made, atomic clocks, might one day help robotic and crewed missions on Mars stay in sync ...

Just a few days after losing contact with the Mars helicopter Ingenuity, NASA announced that it has regained communications with the plucky little helicopter. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), NASA’s ...

All six of NASA's active Mars missions will be on light duties for the next couple of weeks as radio communications become difficult due to the Earth and Mars being on opposite sides of the Sun. There ...

Things are about to get a little quiet between NASA and its fleet of robotic Mars explorers. That's because an expected communication breakdown is about to happen, all thanks to the sun.The Mars solar ...