Malargüe Deep Space Antenna 3
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Malargüe Station is a 35-metre ESTRACK radio antenna in Argentina. It enables the European Space Agency to communicate with spacecraft in deep space. It is located 40 kilometres 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. The station underwent tests in 2012 and was fully operational in 2013.Malargüe Station was one of the stations providing communications, tracking and data download from the Rosetta spacecraft.20kW CW High Power Amplifier it was created by Rheinmetall Italia S.p.A..
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