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Four decades of tracking European spacecraft

Submit on Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 22:55

Forty years ago this week, a satellite ground station in Spain became the first to be assigned to what would become ESA. Since then, the network – Estrack – has expanded world-wide and today employs cutting-edge technology to link mission controllers with spacecraft.

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