European Space Agency
Operation of the ESMO ground station
Operation of the ESMO ground station
ESA Academy

The ESMO teams

14/03/2011

Ground Station

University

University of Vigo, Spain

Responsibilities

Primary ground station for ESMO telemetry and telecommand

The project

The ground station at Villafranca is made available to the ESMO project by the European Space Agency. The ground station team is responsible for its operation. It is used as primary ground station for telemetry, telecommand and ranging (range and range rate, i.e. determination of distance and velocity of ESMO). Additionally it serves as an optional ground station for payload data downlink during transfer to the Moon (if required), and as back-up ground station for payload data downlink from lunar orbit.

Images

The Villafranca VIL-1, 15m S-band antenna
The Villafranca VIL-1, 15m S-band antenna

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