{"id":170484,"date":"2012-12-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"697f32d5d24cf2ac267787d4138732a5"},"modified":"2012-12-17T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:00:00","slug":"malargue-station-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=170484","title":{"rendered":"Malarg\u00fce station construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2012\/12\/malarguee_station_construction\/12191815-6-eng-GB\/Malarguee_station_construction_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOne of the world\u2019s most sophisticated satellite tracking stations is nearing readiness in Malarg\u00fce, Argentina, 1200 km west of Buenos Aires. The massive, 35 m-diameter antenna will capture precious scientific data from missions voyaging hundreds of millions of kilometres into our Solar System.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe inauguration of Malarg\u00fce, set for 18 December, also marks the completion of the Agency\u2019s trio of deep-space antenna \u2013 DSA \u2013 stations as part of the Estrack network and confirms ESA as one of the world\u2019s most technologically advanced space organisations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJoining DSA 1 in New Norcia, Australia, and DSA 2 in Cebreros, Spain, DSA 3 Malarg\u00fce provides the final leg in ESA\u2019s global coverage for deep-space probes including, today, Mars Express, Venus Express, Rosetta, Herschel and Planck, and, in the future, Gaia, BepiColombo, ExoMars, Solar Orbiter and Juice.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe agreement to build and exploit the station was signed with Argentina on 16 November 2009, for a planned duration of 50 years. The agreement contains benefits, facilities and services to be provided by Argentina. In exchange, ESA will make available to Argentina 10% of the antenna time for their national scientific projects. Argentina&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.conae.gov.ar\/\" title=\"CONAE\" >Comisi\u00f3n Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE)<\/a>&nbsp;is responsible for coordinating the use of the 10% of antenna time as provided in the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2012\/12\/malarguee_station_construction\/12191815-6-eng-GB\/Malarguee_station_construction_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOne of the world\u2019s most sophisticated satellite tracking stations is nearing readiness in Malarg\u00fce, Argentina, 1200 km west of Buenos Aires. The massive, 35 m-diameter antenna will capture precious scientific data from missions voyaging hundreds of millions of kilometres into our Solar System.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe inauguration of Malarg\u00fce, set for 18 December, also marks the completion of the Agency\u2019s trio of deep-space antenna \u2013 DSA \u2013 stations as part of the Estrack network and confirms ESA as one of the world\u2019s most technologically advanced space organisations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJoining DSA 1 in New Norcia, Australia, and DSA 2 in Cebreros, Spain, DSA 3 Malarg\u00fce provides the final leg in ESA\u2019s global coverage for deep-space probes including, today, Mars Express, Venus Express, Rosetta, Herschel and Planck, and, in the future, Gaia, BepiColombo, ExoMars, Solar Orbiter and Juice.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe agreement to build and exploit the station was signed with Argentina on 16 November 2009, for a planned duration of 50 years. The agreement contains benefits, facilities and services to be provided by Argentina. In exchange, ESA will make available to Argentina 10% of the antenna time for their national scientific projects. Argentina&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.conae.gov.ar\/\" title=\"CONAE\" target=\"_blank\">Comisi\u00f3n Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE)<\/a>&nbsp;is responsible for coordinating the use of the 10% of antenna time as provided in the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}