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Jacques van Oene
June 27th 05, 09:52 PM
On 9 June, a powerful new 35-metre antenna, presently undergoing acceptance
testing at Cebreros, Spain, successfully picked up signals and tracked
Rosetta and SMART-1. It is ESA's second deep-space ground station in its
class and adds Ka-band reception capability and high pointing precision to
the ESTRACK network.

More at:
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMJDD2DU8E_index_0.html

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Jacques :-)

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