TechnoBuffalo: "NASA’s Deep Space Network, which is used to communicate with satellites such as the agency’s Voyager, turned 50 on Tuesday. The milestone marks the technology’s official creation; the bulk of the network is currently located in an area at Goldstone, CA, with other complexes spread between Canberra, Australia and Madrid, Spain, spread out at roughly 120 degrees of longitude to ensure constant communication."
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Engineers expect to lose contact with the private US moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, cutting short the mission after its sideways touchdown last week.
NASA announced Tuesday that a $32.7 million Capstone spacecraft intended to try out a skewed lunar orbit had lost contact, but agency engineers are confident
