Cebreros Station

Cebreros Station
ESTRACK station at Cebreros, Spain
Alternative namesDSA 2 Edit this on Wikidata
Part ofESTRACK Edit this on Wikidata
Location(s)Cebreros, Province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain
Coordinates40°27′10″N 4°22′03″W / 40.4528°N 4.3676°W / 40.4528; -4.3676 Edit this at Wikidata
OrganizationEuropean Space Operations Centre Edit this on Wikidata
Altitude794 m (2,605 ft) Edit this at Wikidata
Telescope styleground station Edit this on Wikidata
Diameter35 m (114 ft 10 in) Edit this at Wikidata
Websitewww.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Estrack/Cebreros_-_DSA_2 Edit this at Wikidata
Cebreros Station is located in Spain
Cebreros Station
Location of Cebreros Station
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Cebreros Station (also known as DSA 2 or Deep Space Antenna 2) is a European Space Agency, ESTRACK radio antenna station for communication with spacecraft, located about 10 km east of Cebreros and 90 km from Madrid, Spain, operated by the European Space Operations Centre and INTA. A 35-metre diameter antenna that receives and transmit in X- and Ka-bands is located at the site. Station code is "CEB". 20 kW CW High Power Amplifier (HPA) it was created by Rheinmetall Italia SpA (Italy). The monitoring and control system was implemented by Microsis srl (Italy).

It provides daily support to Lisa Pathfinder, Mars Express and Gaia.[1]

It also provided support for Rosetta.

Two sister stations are New Norcia Station in Australia, and Malargüe Station in Argentina.

DSA 2 Cebreros
DSA 2 Cebreros

Until 2002, ESA lacked its own means to communicate with ships destined to other planets, or in very distant orbits and depended on NASA's network of listeners to receive the data collected by them.

  1. ^ "Cebreros - DSA 2".