{"id":688700,"date":"2021-04-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=688700"},"modified":"2021-04-29T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T12:00:00","slug":"esa-to-build-second-deep-space-dish-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=688700","title":{"rendered":"ESA to build second deep space dish in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ESA_s_solar-powered_giant_one_year_on_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"New Norcia antenna completes one year powered by the Sun\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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, Western Australia<\/li>\n<li>The 620-tonne antenna will help ESA provide crucial communication links to its growing fleet of deep space missions<\/li>\n<li>It will be ESA\u2019s second 35-metre antenna at the site and its fourth in total<\/li>\n<li>The joint announcement was made during a virtual meeting held between the heads of ESA and the Australian Space Agency earlier this week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Operations\/ESA_to_build_second_deep_space_dish_in_Australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESA to build second deep space dish in Australia<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, Western Australia The 620-tonne antenna&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":688701,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688700","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/688701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}