On 1 February, media representatives have the unique opportunity of seeing the EarthCARE satellite up close in the cleanroom at Airbus facilities in Friedrichshafen, Germany, before the spacecraft is packed up and shipped to California, USA, for a launch scheduled in May. Developing an open-source tool for a European space-grade c…

ESA's tracking station network – Estrack – is a global system of ground stations providing links between satellites in orbit and ESOC, the European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany. The core Estrack network comprises seven stations in seven countries.

2015年12月1日 · Map showing locations of ESA tracking (Estrack) stations as of 2017. Note this map is representational only and not all locations are shown with complete accuracy. Blue indicates core ESA-owned stations operated by the Estrack Network Operations Centre (NOC) located at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany.

Locations of ESTRACK's ESA owned stations (in blue) on a world map. The ESTRACK network consists of several ground station around the world. Some of them are owned by ESA itself while others are owned by commercial and other institutional operators.

The essential task of all ESA ground-based tracking stations is to communicate with spacecraft – to transmit commands and receive scientific data and spacecraft status information. Our technically advanced stations can track spacecraft almost anywhere – circling Earth, watching the Sun, orbiting at the scientifically crucial Sun-Earth ...

The contents of the ESA TSD 2 are organized in a subdirectory structure, one per site: The main and summarizing document provides general information and overview on site, location, site map, geodetic network and antennae, sketches, photos, structure and contents of subdirectory.

The European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) operates a number of ground-based space-tracking stations for the European Space Agency (ESA), known as the European Space Tracking (ESTRACK) network. The stations support various ESA spacecraft and facilitate communications between ground operators and scientific probes such as XMM-Newton and Mars ...

Map of Cluster Ground Station Network Spacecraft telemetry, command and tracking is carried out primarily by the ESA ground station in Villafranca, Spain, with support from NASA's Deep Space Network. In the critical early stages between launch and final orbit insertion, additional ground stations in Kourou (French Guiana), Perth (Australia) and ...

These first three webcam images show the 35 m-diameter dish antennas at the deep space ground stations located in Spain, Australia and Argentina. The first live outdoor webcam image shows the antenna NNO1, or Deep Space Antenna 1 …

This map is a collection of various types of satellite ground stations located across Australia. Types of marked sites include large telecommunication hubs, deep space tracking stations run by NASA/CSIRO and the ESA, control centers for commercial satellite operators, broadcast uplink/distribution nodes, and rural National Broadband Network nodes.