NASA has not yet been able to complete the investigation into the incident that occurred on September 16, 2025.
The agency covered up the incident for several months. Then, for unknown reasons, the rotating antenna for deep space communications DSS-14 made an unacceptable turn, violently breaking all the cables, including the water supply pipes, after which the device was flooded. The agency covered up the incident for several months.
The incident happened in Goldstone, California. We are talking about a complex with a rotating antenna 70 meters long. In total, NASA has three such antennas: in addition to the United States, they are located in Spain (near Madrid) and in Australia (Canberra). In addition to communicating with spacecraft located far from Earth, the Deep Space Network's antennas also perform the task of sensing the environment around the planet to search for potentially dangerous asteroids.
After the incident, the antenna stopped working. It is expected that she will partially return to work in April this year, 3dnews.ru reported.
