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The European Space Agency (ESA), in cooperation with the Australian Space Agency,
will construct a
new 35-metre, deep space dish antenna at its existing ground station
in New Norcia, 140km north of Perth in Western Australia.
The 620-tonne antenna
be ESA’s second 35-metre antenna at the site and its fourth in
total and will help ESA provide crucial communication
links to its growing fleet of deep space missions.
ESA’s deep-space stations are supporting a growing number of
increasingly sophisticated exploration probes like Gaia, BepiColombo,
Solar Orbiter and, soon, the ExoMars rover, Euclid and JUICE, as well
as upcoming space safety missions like Hera and the Sun-monitoring
space weather mission.
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