{"id":170495,"date":"2012-12-13T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"e4ce21e396f15ed1e81b743410eff96e"},"modified":"2012-12-13T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T23:00:00","slug":"from-the-pampas-to-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=170495","title":{"rendered":"From the pampas to the stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2012\/12\/from_the_pampas_to_the_stars\/12179947-1-eng-GB\/From_the_pampas_to_the_stars_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s new tracking station in Malarg\u00fce, Argentina, will be formally inaugurated on 18 December 2012 and enter service early in 2013. The massive, 35 m-diameter antenna enables receipt of precious scientific data from current and future missions voyaging hundreds of millions of kilometres into our Solar System.<br \/>\nInauguration of Malarg\u00fce also marks the completion of the Agency\u2019s trio of deep-space antenna (DSA) stations as part of the ESTRACK network and confirms ESA as one of the world\u2019s most technologically advanced space organisations.<br \/>\nThe station is located in Malarg\u00fce, Argentina, 1200 km west of Buenos Aires. Joining DSA 1, New Norcia, Australia, and DSA 2, Cebreros, Spain, DSA 3 Malarg\u00fce provides the final leg in ESA\u2019s 360\u00b0 circumferential 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.<br \/>The foreboding beauty of the landscape near Malarg\u00fce, 1500m high in clear mountain air, is also famous for the 1972 Andes flight disaster, dramatised in the 1993 film &quot;Alive: The Miracle of the Andes.&quot; The actual crash site in the mountains is approximately 138.4 km, as the crow flies, from ESA&#8217;s station.<\/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\/videos\/2012\/12\/from_the_pampas_to_the_stars\/12179947-1-eng-GB\/From_the_pampas_to_the_stars_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s new tracking station in Malarg\u00fce, Argentina, will be formally inaugurated on 18 December 2012 and enter service early in 2013. The massive, 35 m-diameter antenna enables receipt of precious scientific data from current and future missions voyaging hundreds of millions of kilometres into our Solar System.<br \/>\nInauguration of Malarg\u00fce also marks the completion of the Agency\u2019s trio of deep-space antenna (DSA) stations as part of the ESTRACK network and confirms ESA as one of the world\u2019s most technologically advanced space organisations.<br \/>\nThe station is located in Malarg\u00fce, Argentina, 1200 km west of Buenos Aires. Joining DSA 1, New Norcia, Australia, and DSA 2, Cebreros, Spain, DSA 3 Malarg\u00fce provides the final leg in ESA\u2019s 360\u00b0 circumferential 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.<br \/>The foreboding beauty of the landscape near Malarg\u00fce, 1500m high in clear mountain air, is also famous for the 1972 Andes flight disaster, dramatised in the 1993 film &quot;Alive: The Miracle of the Andes.&quot; The actual crash site in the mountains is approximately 138.4 km, as the crow flies, from ESA&#8217;s station.<\/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-170495","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\/170495","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=170495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170495\/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=170495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}