The European Space Agency (ESA), is constructing a new 35-metre deep space antenna at its ground station in New Norcia, in Western Australia. The 620-tonne antenna will be ESA’s second 35-metre antenna at the site, which is one of ESA’s three stations around the world, with the others located in Spain and Argentina. Last week saw a key stage successfully passed, with the “big lift” of the antenna dish onto the supporting structure. ESA’s deep-space stations are supporting a growing number of increasingly sophisticated exploration probes like Gaia, BepiColombo, Solar Orbiter, Euclid, and JUICE, as well as upcoming missions like Hera, the ExoMars rover, and a Sun-monitoring space weather mission. The tracking station at New Norcia started operation in 2003, with CSIRO having been contracted by ESA since 2019 for operational support and maintenance.