How do you maintain a secure communications link between Space and Earth. And more specifically, how do you keep a lunar spacecraft safely connected to Earth? Lunar and deep-space communications form a unique category of space-to-ground capabilities, encountering both challenges and exciting innovations. Luckily, there is a steaming fresh podcast episode on the subject!

With various ambitious lunar landers, Mars rovers, mining equipment and other projects out there, SSC stands as a guiding star on the ground, securing and protecting Space-to-Ground connectivity through a worldwide network of ground stations and antennas.  

With a long heritage from lunar mission support – dating back to the Gemini and Apollo missions in the 60’s, as well as more recent high-profile missions such as ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 – SSC has grown into an industry leader on this market.  

Preparing for yet another highly anticipated lunar mission, U.S. lunar exploration company ispace depends on ground station support from SSC. To share more details about the mission and explain the complexity of Moon-to-Earth connectivity, the two companies were jointly interviewed by the U.S. podcast The Downlink Podcast. 

Listen to the latest episode Space Tech: Talking To The Far Side of the Moon”:https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DXVt7yii7aVkTpQg0caZG?si=c1EL5O9lTCuRE142OqmdFg  

The podcast’s host Laura Winter speaks with SSC:s very own Greg Johnson, also known as Mr. Lunar, Director of Business Development, as well as Tyler Mundt, Mission Director at ispace, Marchel Holle, U.S. Government Relations Lead at ispace, and George Pullen, Chief Economist at Milky Way Economy.

Read more about the partnership between SSC and ispace:
https://sscspace.com/ssc-to-support-ispace-us-m3-lunar-mission/ 

Read more about SSC’s involvement in ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 mission: https://sscspace.com/ssc-and-indias-historic-lunar-landing/