{"id":798328,"date":"2025-09-22T09:28:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=798328"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:28:26","slug":"esas-new-norcia-ground-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=798328","title":{"rendered":"ESA&#8217;s New Norcia ground station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>The European Space Agency is expanding its deep space communication capabilities with the construction of a new 35-metre deep space antenna \u2013 the fourth of its kind. It will be joining the existing one at New Norcia station, Australia, to help meet the Agency&#8217;s fast increasing data download needs.<\/p>\n<p>When the new deep space antenna enters service in 2026, it will support ESA\u2019s current flagship missions flown as part of the Agency&#8217;s scientific, exploration and space safety fleets, including Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express, Euclid, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Hera, and later upcoming missions including Plato, Envision, and Vigil.<\/p>\n<p>Access the related broadcast quality video material.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ESA&#039;s New Norcia ground station\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/98OQcZIMfOo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2025\/09\/ESA_s_New_Norcia_ground_station?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency is expanding its deep space communication capabilities with the construction of a new 35-metre deep space antenna \u2013 the fourth of its kind. It will be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":798329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798328","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\/798328","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=798328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/798329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}