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ESA’s New Norcia deep space tracking station

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First time controlling two spacecraft with one dish

05/02/2020 5646 views 47 likes

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Cleaning the dishes

27/11/2019 2601 views 30 likes

ESA Main Control Room, Darmstadt

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European network of operations centres takes shape

25/10/2019 3037 views 23 likes

New team for New Norcia deep space antenna

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New era for New Norcia deep space antenna

04/06/2019 7172 views 76 likes

Simulating lunar surface operations

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ESA boosts startup to the Moon

03/04/2019 4778 views 64 likes

DLR-Bodenstation Weilheim

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ESA and DLR in joint study to support deep space missions

02/04/2019 4856 views 56 likes

New Norcia antenna supports NASA's InSight lander on Mars

Science & Exploration

Mars calling

26/03/2019 11829 views 104 likes

NASA's InSight lander operating on the surface of Mars

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ESA lends a hand at Mars

23/11/2018 13568 views 111 likes

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ESA ready for weather mission liftoff

05/11/2018 1599 views 15 likes

Elsa Montagnon

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BepiColombo's beginning ends

22/10/2018 8696 views 169 likes

Science & Exploration

BepiColombo blasts off to investigate Mercury’s mysteries

20/10/2018 18671 views 170 likes

New Norcia Tracking Station GIF

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Ten years catching rocket signals

26/09/2018 4718 views 44 likes

Sunburnt country

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ESA deep space stations ready for NASA’s InSight Mars flight

04/05/2018 6830 views 84 likes

Goonhilly antenna

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Goonhilly goes deep space

22/02/2018 8907 views 102 likes

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Going green to the Red Planet

28/11/2017 4779 views 87 likes

Villafranca tracking station 1977

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Transferring ownership of three ESA ground stations

16/11/2017 3300 views 23 likes

Laser to the Moon

Science & Exploration

Low-cost clocks for landing on the Moon

26/10/2017 10016 views 166 likes

Cassini grand finale

Science & Exploration

Cassini concludes pioneering mission at Saturn

15/09/2017 28910 views 216 likes

Malargüe station

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Big dishes band together

25/08/2017 6258 views 120 likes

ESA Malargüe tracking station

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ESA boosting its Argentine link with deep space

25/04/2017 6891 views 86 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

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Anatomy of a debris incident

01/02/2017 9171 views 55 likes

Saturn northern hemisphere

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Catching Cassini’s call

13/01/2017 13986 views 169 likes

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Ready for the Red Planet

14/10/2016 18832 views 125 likes

Former Perth station

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Recycling a space antenna

07/09/2016 3088 views 24 likes

Cassini orbiter crossing Saturn's ring plane

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Most distant catch for ESA station

18/08/2016 13979 views 145 likes

ESOC control room

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European space operations experts at the Berlin Air and Spa…

31/05/2016 2115 views 12 likes

Opening Malargüe

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ESA extends global ties

03/05/2016 4697 views 83 likes

Mission control

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Teams ready for Sentinel-1B launch

21/04/2016 4750 views 43 likes

ExoMars team training

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Intensive training for Mars voyage

08/03/2016 5915 views 57 likes

New tracking antenna

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New antenna ready for business

12/02/2016 6902 views 61 likes

ESA antenna construction 1985

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Auld lang tracking syne

15/01/2016 5099 views 51 likes

ESA’s New Norcia deep space tracking station

Deep Space SocialSpace

13/01/2016 5272 views 47 likes

Hayabusa-2

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ESA station tracks Earth flyby mission

03/12/2015 5302 views 50 likes

Small yet capable

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Tracking new missions from down under

24/11/2015 6241 views 63 likes

Celebrating at Cebreros

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Forty years of European space tracking

24/09/2015 4577 views 51 likes

#Estrack40

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Music contest winners

18/09/2015 4738 views 32 likes

ESA Malargüe tracking station

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Big Iron gets technology boost

17/09/2015 6252 views 76 likes

Living with a comet

Science & Exploration

Celebrating a year at the comet

06/08/2015 16050 views 91 likes

Malargüe station

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Tracking spacecraft through the cosmos contest: enter and w…

30/07/2015 8817 views 29 likes

Villafranca tracking station 1977

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Four decades of tracking European spacecraft

18/05/2015 5621 views 53 likes

Hayabusa-2

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Tracking Japan’s asteroid sample mission

29/04/2015 12173 views 153 likes

Wake up Rosetta school group

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A light-speed voyage to the distant future

15/05/2014 5571 views 55 likes

New Norcia station

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ESA teams ready for Moon landing

13/12/2013 6316 views 38 likes

ESA's Malargüe tracking station

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Deep-space stations gain made-in-Europe hearing boost

18/07/2013 7242 views 80 likes

ESA and Argentinian guests gather for Malargüe inauguration

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Malargüe station inauguration

19/12/2012 4147 views 32 likes

Rocknest3 relayed by Mars Express

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Fostering Curiosity: Mars Express relays rocky images

26/11/2012 2129 views 5 likes

ESA's Malargüe tracking station

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Giant tracking station readies for operation

31/10/2012 3200 views 4 likes

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Lifting of giant deep space antenna complete

08/12/2011 611 views 0 likes

Maspalomas station

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ESA responds to Phobos-Grunt tracking request

07/12/2011 833 views 1 likes

Amateur astronomer image of Phobos-Grunt, 29 November

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ESA suspends tracking support to Russian Mars mission

02/12/2011 1027 views 0 likes

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