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Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades K-4, Grades 5-8
Subject
Computer Science, Space Science, Technology, Robotic Explorers, Communication
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
NASA’s Deep Space Network is a series of antennas on Earth used to communicate with faraway spacecraft. But the DSN doesn’t send and receive sounds: It uses radio waves to communicate with spacecraft.
In this activity, students find out how signals travel and are decoded. Students learn about binary code and send messages using that code.
Speaking in Phases