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Antenna & tracking stations
Steffen
post Sep 22 2006, 04:40 PM
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Probably not the correct forum area but I wanted to start a tracking station topic huh.gif

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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cndwrld
post Oct 10 2007, 06:58 AM
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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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- Steffen   Antenna & tracking stations   Sep 22 2006, 04:40 PM
- - PhilCo126   Don’t forget: http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/ ...   Sep 23 2006, 07:29 AM
- - PhilCo126   Here's one more view of the Spanish Deep Space...   Sep 23 2006, 05:39 PM
- - PhilCo126   This is a nice place to start ... http://www.nro....   Sep 23 2006, 08:14 PM
- - DonPMitchell   With regard to tracking stations, here are the maj...   Sep 24 2006, 01:56 AM
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- - climber   Just read toady on AW&ST that ESA is building ...   Oct 8 2007, 07:46 PM
- - cndwrld   It might be a radio astronomy dish of some kind. B...   Oct 9 2007, 12:22 PM
- - climber   Sorry, I made a not enough acurate quote. Here is ...   Oct 9 2007, 08:59 PM
- - cndwrld   From what you wrote, it says that it is to be prop...   Oct 10 2007, 06:58 AM
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