Malargüe Station

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Malargüe Station (also known as DSA 3 or Deep Space Antenna 3) is a 35-metre ESTRACK radio antenna in Argentina.[1] It enables the European Space Agency (ESA) to communicate with spacecraft in deep space. It is located 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of the town of Malargüe, Argentina . The Malargüe antenna has two sister stations, Cebreros Station, near Madrid, Spain, and New Norcia Station near New Norcia, Western Australia. The completion of this station allows ESTRACK to track deep space missions continuously.

On 7 December 2011, the station's 35 m-diameter dish antenna was hoisted into place. The operation took several hours and had to wait for a calm day with no wind.[2] The station underwent tests in 2012 and was fully operational in 2013.[3]

Malargüe Station was one of the stations providing communications, tracking and data download from the Rosetta spacecraft.[4]

20kW CW High Power Amplifier (HPA) it was created by Rheinmetall Italia S.p.A. (Italy). The monitoring and control system was implemented by Microsis srl (Italy). A 500W ASI Ka transmitter (Italian Space Agency) has been installed for Ka band transmission experiments carried out jointly with NASA. The transmitter was made by Rheinmetall Italia S.p.A. (Italy) and Microsis srl (Italy).

## References

1. ↑ "Malargüe - DSA 3". ESA. http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Malarguee_-_DSA_3.
2. ↑ "Lifting of giant deep space antenna complete". ESA. 8 December 2011. http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Lifting_of_giant_deep_space_antenna_complete2.
3. ↑ Jenny Winder (5 November 2012). "Huge new ESA tracking station is ready for duty". Phys.org. http://phys.org/news/2012-11-huge-esa-tracking-station-ready.html.
4. ↑ "What's up with Rosetta?". ESA. 18 August 2014. http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/08/18/whats-up-with-rosetta/.

## External links

* ESA webpage on ESTRACK, including links to all stations
* ESA webcam at Malargüe Station

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ESTRACK

Core Network|

| Europe|

* Redu Station (Belgium)
* Cebreros Station (Spain)
* Maspalomas Station (Gran Canaria, Spain)
* Villafranca Station (Spain)
* Kiruna Station (Sweden)
* Santa Maria (Azores, Portugal)

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South America|

* Kourou Station (French Guayana)
* Malargüe Station (Argentina)

Australia|

* New Norcia Station
* Perth Station (PITC)

Augmented Network|

* Svalbard Satellite Station (Norway)
* Dongara Station (Australia)
* Troll Satellite Station (Antarctica)
* Santiago Station (Chile)
* South Point Station (USA)

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