After nearly breaking, NASA's Deep Space Network "worked well" on Artemis II

Breathing room

“Some missions are using more than what their paperwork would say.”

File photo of the 70-meter antenna at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA pushed its Deep Space Network beyond its limits during the Artemis I mission nearly four years ago. The global array of deep space communications antennas couldn’t keep up with the routine demands of 40 robotic science missions and the extraordinary surge required by NASA’s Orion space capsule as it flew around the Moon.