Antenna & tracking stations |
Antenna & tracking stations |
Sep 22 2006, 04:40 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: 22-December 05 Member No.: 616 |
Probably not the correct forum area but I wanted to start a tracking station topic
Some Tracking stations related weblinks: http://www.bfec.us/bfectxt.htm http://www.insa.org/gallery/oc/historicas/Fresnedillas/ http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/ |
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Oct 10 2007, 06:58 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 247 Joined: 17-February 07 From: ESAC, cerca Madrid, Spain. Member No.: 1743 |
From what you wrote, it says that it is to be proposed, and that it is also currently under construction.
But putting that aside, a dish on Sardinia would overlap in coverage with the new dish that was finished in last year in Spain, at Cebreros. While doing nothing to plug the hole they have in the Americas. And at 64 meters, would be significantly bigger than the two 35 meter antennas that currently make up the ESA deep space network. A 64 meter dish is hugely expensive, and would do nothing to improve the system coverage. I checked with the operations guys in Darmstadt, where ESA does its spacecraft operations, and they had never heard of such an antenna in Sardinia. I think this antenna falls into the same category as the Italian Space Agency announcing that they were going to fund an independent mission to the Moon. -------------------- --
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