Lifting the dish at ESA's newest deep space antenna

The 122-tonne reflector dish for ESA's newest deep space communication antenna was lifted and place atop its tower in Australia on 19 September 2024. In the foreground, ESA's existing deep space antenna at the site continues its daily work relaying commands to and data from distant spacecraft such as the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury or ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer.