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To enable the ESOC flight control team to make contact with ESA spacecraft during launch and early orbit, teams of scientific and operational engineers plan and calculate each mission to the highest standard.
 
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During its ten-year trek to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Rosetta will bounce around the inner Solar System like a ‘cosmic billiard ball’.

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ESA antenna near Perth
This, ESA's first 35-metre deep-space ground station, is situated at New Norcia, 140 km north of Perth in Australia. The 630 tonne antenna is used to track Rosetta and Mars Express, as well as other missions in deep space. The ground station was officially opened on 5 March 2003 by the Premier of Western Australia, Hon Dr Geoff Gallop.

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