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 Earth observation missions just a few hundred kilometres up. The network returns precious scientific data to scientists on Earth and transmits commands from satellite controllers, all via remote control from ESOC, ESA’s European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany.
In Dec 2012, ESA’s ground station network provided 3741 hours of tracking to 18 missions. New #ESTRACK profile video bit.ly/UaYlo8
— ESA Operations (@esaoperations) January 11, 2013
Our new ESTRACK profile video is below!
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