ESA’s new tracking station gets ready in the Argentinian desert
“Construction is done. Now, we’re in the handover phase, where ESA Engineering is passing the station facility over to ESA Operations and we’re verifying that it meets all specifications,” says ESA’s...
View ArticleMalargüe station mosaic
A mosaic depicting ESA’s new 35m deep-space tracking station at Malargüe, Argentina, composed of several hundred low-resolution Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) images acquired by Mars Express. On 18...
View ArticleFirst data via Malargüe station: Mars as seen by VMC
Marking its inauguration, ESA’s Malargüe tracking station receives Mars Webcam image. An image of the enigmatic Red Planet acquired by ESA’s Mars Express on 15 December 2012 was downloaded via ESA’s...
View ArticleMalargue station signals as seen at ESOC
What we’re seeing here at ESOC as Malargue station tracks and records signals from NASA’s Juno: the console display of the signal strength. #rocketscience
View ArticleTracking Juno: Here it comes and there it goes
A pair of photos of ESA’s Malargue station that perfectly illustrate how the Agency’s tracking efforts progressed last night. At left, the huge 35m dish antenna is pointing more or less straight up as...
View ArticleSpectrum of the future: Estrack joins the club
A very nice report today sent in by Mattia Mercolino, one of the Estrack engineers at ESOC, reporting on a significant milestone for ESA’s Estrack station network – Ed. ESA’s 35m deep-space station at...
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