Estrack network profile
Linking spacecraft with people at the frontiers of human knowledge: ESA’s Estrack ground station network communicates each day over hundreds of millions of kilometres with deep-space missions, or with...
View ArticleTracking spacecraft deep across the void
The Agency's three Deep Space Antenna (DSA) stations are located in Australia, Spain and Argentina, and are centrally controlled from the ESOC Operations Centre in Germany. They are equipped with...
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ESA ground tracking network supports Soyuz VS07 today
15m Estrack ground station, Perth, Australia. Credit: ESA In addition to tracking satellites in Earth orbit (or 5AU away in deep space), ESA's Estrack station network can also receive signals from...
View ArticleIXV tracking & recovery ship
The tracking and recovery ship, Nos Aries, is now in the Pacific Ocean getting ready for this week’s crucial IXV mission. The ship and a team of engineers on board will play a crucail role in the short...
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Double duty for ESA’s Perth station
If you've read the detailed timeline for Sentinel-2A launch on 23 June, you will have noticed an interesting set of entries for Perth towards the end, namely: MET 50:29 - Earliest AOS Vega - PER AOS...
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[UPDATED] Mars Express chats with Curiosity: Practice makes perfect
UPDATE 16 June: MEX Deputy Spacecraft Operations Manager James Godfrey just emailed to report that yesterday's MSL overflight seems to have gone rather well! "We have received good telemetry from the...
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Listening to an alien landing
We're listening: Earth tracking the Schiaparelli lander 19 October Today's blog post was contributed by Thomas Ormston, a spacecraft operations engineer working here at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany. Since...
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Tiangong-1 reentry: How ESA found out
Editor’s note: ESA’s Space Debris team have sent in a final update on the reentry of Tiangong-1. As we posted earlier, around once a year, ESA takes part in a joint tracking campaign run by the Inter...
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Satellite studying Earth’s diminishing ice swerves to avoid collision
CryoSat. Credit: ESA/P. Carril On Monday, 9 July 2018, engineers based at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Germany made the decision to alter the path of the CryoSat satellite, preventing a...
View ArticleEstrack network profile
Linking spacecraft with people at the frontiers of human knowledge: ESA’s Estrack ground station network communicates each day over hundreds of millions of kilometres with deep-space missions, or with...
View ArticleTracking spacecraft deep across the void
The Agency’s three Deep Space Antenna (DSA) stations are located in Australia, Spain and Argentina, and are centrally controlled from the ESOC Operations Centre in Germany. They are equipped with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ESA ground tracking network supports Soyuz VS07 today
15m Estrack ground station, Perth, Australia. Credit: ESA In addition to tracking satellites in Earth orbit (or 5AU away in deep space), ESA’s Estrack station network can also receive signals from...
View ArticleIXV tracking & recovery ship
The tracking and recovery ship, Nos Aries, is now in the Pacific Ocean getting ready for this week’s crucial IXV mission. The ship and a team of engineers on board will play a crucail role in the short...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Double duty for ESA’s Perth station
If you’ve read the detailed timeline for Sentinel-2A launch on 23 June, you will have noticed an interesting set of entries for Perth towards the end, namely: MET 50:29 – Earliest AOS Vega – PER AOS...
View ArticleClik here to view.
[UPDATED] Mars Express chats with Curiosity: Practice makes perfect
UPDATE 16 June: MEX Deputy Spacecraft Operations Manager James Godfrey just emailed to report that yesterday’s MSL overflight seems to have gone rather well! “We have received good telemetry from the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Listening to an alien landing
We’re listening: Earth tracking the Schiaparelli lander 19 October Today’s blog post was contributed by Thomas Ormston, a spacecraft operations engineer working here at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany. Since...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tiangong-1 reentry: How ESA found out
Editor’s note: ESA’s Space Debris team have sent in a final update on the reentry of Tiangong-1. As we posted earlier, around once a year, ESA takes part in a joint tracking campaign run by the Inter...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Satellite studying Earth’s diminishing ice swerves to avoid collision
CryoSat. Credit: ESA/P. Carril On Monday, 9 July 2018, engineers based at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Germany made the decision to alter the path of the CryoSat satellite, preventing a...
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