ESA - ESA Ground Stations - Archive

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Science & Exploration

BepiColombo blasts off to investigate Mercury’s mysteries

20/10/2018 18663 views 170 likes

New Norcia Tracking Station GIF

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Ten years catching rocket signals

26/09/2018 4711 views 44 likes

Sunburnt country

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

04/05/2018 6822 views 84 likes

Goonhilly antenna

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Goonhilly goes deep space

22/02/2018 8867 views 102 likes

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Going green to the Red Planet

28/11/2017 4774 views 87 likes

Villafranca tracking station 1977

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Transferring ownership of three ESA ground stations

16/11/2017 3296 views 23 likes

Laser to the Moon

Science & Exploration

Low-cost clocks for landing on the Moon

26/10/2017 10015 views 166 likes

Cassini grand finale

Science & Exploration

Cassini concludes pioneering mission at Saturn

15/09/2017 28864 views 216 likes

Malargüe station

Enabling & Support

Big dishes band together

25/08/2017 6255 views 120 likes

ESA Malargüe tracking station

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ESA boosting its Argentine link with deep space

25/04/2017 6886 views 86 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

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Anatomy of a debris incident

01/02/2017 9166 views 55 likes

Saturn northern hemisphere

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Catching Cassini’s call

13/01/2017 13983 views 169 likes

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Ready for the Red Planet

14/10/2016 18831 views 125 likes

Former Perth station

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Recycling a space antenna

07/09/2016 3086 views 24 likes

Cassini orbiter crossing Saturn's ring plane

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Most distant catch for ESA station

18/08/2016 13976 views 145 likes

ESOC control room

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European space operations experts at the Berlin Air and Spa…

31/05/2016 2112 views 12 likes

Opening Malargüe

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ESA extends global ties

03/05/2016 4694 views 83 likes

Mission control

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Teams ready for Sentinel-1B launch

21/04/2016 4749 views 43 likes

ExoMars team training

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Intensive training for Mars voyage

08/03/2016 5907 views 57 likes

New tracking antenna

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New antenna ready for business

12/02/2016 6899 views 61 likes

ESA antenna construction 1985

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Auld lang tracking syne

15/01/2016 5096 views 51 likes

ESA’s New Norcia deep space tracking station

Deep Space SocialSpace

13/01/2016 5268 views 47 likes

Hayabusa-2

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ESA station tracks Earth flyby mission

03/12/2015 5300 views 50 likes

Small yet capable

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Tracking new missions from down under

24/11/2015 6235 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 4736 views 32 likes

ESA Malargüe tracking station

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Big Iron gets technology boost

17/09/2015 6247 views 76 likes

Living with a comet

Science & Exploration

Celebrating a year at the comet

06/08/2015 16049 views 91 likes

Malargüe station

Enabling & Support

Tracking spacecraft through the cosmos contest: enter and w…

30/07/2015 8816 views 29 likes

Villafranca tracking station 1977

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Four decades of tracking European spacecraft

18/05/2015 5615 views 53 likes

Hayabusa-2

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Tracking Japan’s asteroid sample mission

29/04/2015 12170 views 153 likes

Wake up Rosetta school group

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A light-speed voyage to the distant future

15/05/2014 5570 views 55 likes

New Norcia station

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ESA teams ready for Moon landing

13/12/2013 6313 views 38 likes

ESA's Malargüe tracking station

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

18/07/2013 7239 views 80 likes

ESA and Argentinian guests gather for Malargüe inauguration

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Malargüe station inauguration

19/12/2012 4146 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 610 views 0 likes

Maspalomas station

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ESA responds to Phobos-Grunt tracking request

07/12/2011 832 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 1025 views 0 likes

ESA's 15m tracking station, Perth, Australia

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ESA tracks Ariane and ATV Johannes Kepler

14/02/2011 1468 views 0 likes

KIR-1

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Kiruna station update

28/01/2010 641 views 0 likes

New Norcia: ESA's first 35m deep-space station

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Deep space maintenance deep in Australia's bush

01/12/2009 937 views 0 likes

V. Claros-Guerra at ESTRACK Cebreros station in 2005

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European experts operate Apollo tracking network

16/07/2009 3118 views 3 likes

Cebreros deep space antenna

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ESA to build its third deep space ground station in Argenti…

26/06/2009 4197 views 5 likes

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ESA's Herschel calls home using mobile phone technology

19/05/2009 1134 views 0 likes

Santa Maria station - 5.5m antenna

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ESTRACK welcomes Santa Maria station

18/01/2008 517 views 1 likes

Santa Maria station

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Boosting capability: Santa Maria station to join ESTRACK

10/01/2008 2755 views 5 likes

New Norcia: ESA's first 35m deep space station

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ESA transmits first-ever telecommands to Chinese satellite

01/11/2007 2143 views 2 likes

Antenna Kourou

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ESA tracking support essential to Chinese mission

26/10/2007 1064 views 1 likes

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