El 10 de agosto de 2016, la estación de la ESA de seguimiento en New Norcia, con una antena 35 m de diámetro, y 630 toneladas de peso, enfocando al espacio profundo en Australia Occidental, recibe las señales transmitidas por el orbitador Cassini de la NASA; desde el planeta Saturno, a través de 1,44 millones de kilómetros de espacio.
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- Title The longest call
- Released 18/08/2016 10:23 am
- Copyright ESA/D. O'Donnell
- DescriptionOn 10 August 2016, ESA’s tracking station at New Norcia, Western Australia, hosting a 35 m-diameter, 630-tonne deep-space antenna, received signals transmitted by NASA’s Cassini orbiter at Saturn, through 1.44 billion km of space.“This was the farthest-ever reception for an ESA station, and the radio signals – travelling at the speed of light – took 80 minutes to cover this vast distance,” says Daniel Firre, responsible for supporting Cassini radio science at ESOC, ESA’s operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany.The signal reception was part of a series of tests to prepare several ESA stations to support Cassini’s radio science investigations, planned to begin later in 2016.This image shows New Norcia station as seen in 2014 by Dylan O’Donnell, an amateur photographer based in Byron Bay, Australia (the blob of light apparently hovering above the antenna is a light artefact, ‘lens flare’).More informationNew Norcia station
Estrack ground station network
Cassini-Huygens - Id 364134
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- Activity Operations
- Mission Cassini-Huygens
- System ESTRACK
- Location New Norcia , New Norcia , Australia
- Action Tracking
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