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ESA's ground station in New Norcia, in Western Australia, is Western Australia is home to a small 4.5-metre one, which tracks Vega-C and Ariane 6 launches and acquires critical telemetry used to monitor their status.
The antenna is located a few hundred meters from two deep space antennas, the second of which was inaugurated in 2025, that support ESA’s flagship missions flown as part of the Agency's scientific, exploration and space safety fleets, including Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express, Euclid, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Hera, and later upcoming missions including Plato, Envision, and Vigil.
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ESA's ground station in New Norcia, in Western Australia, is home to two of ESA's deep space antennas which support ESA’s flagship missions flown as part of the Agency's scientific, exploration and space safety fleets, including Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express, Euclid, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Hera, and later upcoming missions including Plato, Envision, and Vigil. Western Australia provides a strategic geographical position for around-the-clock coverage of deep space missions. It is a perfect complement to the sites in Malargüe (Argentina) and Cebreros (Spain).
Western Australia is also the location over which payloads launching from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, separate from their launcher. Located a few hundred meters from the deep space antennas, a smaller 4.5-metre one (located on left-hand side), tracks Vega-C and Ariane 6 launches and acquires critical telemetry used to monitor their status.
The station hosts a custom-built transponder antenna (located on right-hand side) to calibrate the measurements of ESA’s Biomass mission, launched in 2025.
The Estrack station at New Norcia, Western Australia, demonstrates ESA's strong engagement in the Asia-Pacific region and especially Australia, part of the long-term cooperation between ESA and Australia in the space domain. It enables significant economic, technology and scientific benefits for both partners, and will pave the way for further collaboration in areas such as communications, space safety and mission operations.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) is expanding its deep space communication capabilities with the construction of a new 35-metre deep space antenna – the fourth of its kind. It will be joining the existing one (on the left-hand side) at New Norcia station, Australia, to help meet the Agency's fast increasing data download needs.
When the new deep space antenna enters service in 2026, it will support ESA’s current flagship missions flown as part of the Agency's scientific, exploration and space safety fleets, including Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express, Euclid, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Hera, and later upcoming missions including Plato, Envision, and Vigil.
Credits: ESA
europeanspaceagency posted a photo:
The European Space Agency (ESA) is expanding its deep space communication capabilities with the construction of a new 35-metre deep space antenna – the fourth of its kind. It will be joining the existing one (on the right-hand side) at New Norcia station, Australia, to help meet the Agency's fast increasing data download needs.
When the new deep space antenna enters service in 2026, it will support ESA’s current flagship missions flown as part of the Agency's scientific, exploration and space safety fleets, including Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express, Euclid, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Hera, and later upcoming missions including Plato, Envision, and Vigil.
Credits: ESA
europeanspaceagency posted a photo:
The European Space Agency (ESA) is expanding its deep space communication capabilities with the construction of a new 35-metre deep space antenna – the fourth of its kind. It will be joining the existing one at New Norcia station, Australia, to help meet the Agency's fast increasing data download needs.
When the new deep space antenna enters service in 2026, it will support ESA’s current flagship missions flown as part of the Agency's scientific, exploration and space safety fleets, including Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express, Euclid, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Hera, and later upcoming missions including Plato, Envision, and Vigil.
Credits: ESA
DRIE HONDERD DUIZEND EURO. U verdient zuks niet in één jaar, maar in Ter Apel hoeven ze er niet eens hun nest voor uit. Met dank aan de lachende mensensmokkelaars van het Centraal Omvolkings Apparaat (COA) die het uit de klauwen laten lopen aan het normaliseren zijn. Al de hele week is het kassa in Ter Apel, want meer alsdan 2000 logeetjes in het aanmeldcentrum, en dat levert per dag een boete op van 50.000 pietermannen. Goes without saying dat die boetebedragen niet van het salaris van het falende, prutsende, slecht presterende COA-bestuur wordt afgetrokken, maar dat u lekker mag dokken. Hoe ziet dat er nu uit, die DRIE TON GeenStijl? Nou zeau. Foto: Politie.
Just outside Brussels, an ancient woodland known as the Sonian Forest spans almost 11,000 acres and includes some of the world’s most impressive beech groves. For photographer Frédéric Demeuse, who grew up in Belgium’s capital, it’s a familiar yet perpetually alluring place. “This is where I made my first naturalist observations,” he tells Colossal, spotting squirrels, amphibians, and birds that sparked his childhood fascination.
In dreamy photographs, Demeuse explores increasingly rare, remote pockets of nature in his ongoing series Forgotten Places. He documents these areas to create a visual record of forests and landscapes that require careful preservation, not only for the flora and fauna that reside there but for human health and mental wellness, too. Over the past 200 years, our connection to nature has dwindled by a mind-boggling 60 percent overall, risking what University of Derby professor Miles Richardson calls an “extinction of experience.”
Exploring beautiful environments and communing with green spaces helps Demeuse feel connected to the land he traverses and encourages him to be more intentional about how he approaches relationships and daily life. Focusing on essential and deceptively simple views of trees and plants is a means to “inspire respect for the extraordinary complexity of the living world and remind us to stay humble,” he says.
While Demeuse enjoys returning to familiar locations to see how they organically transform and go through seasonal cycles, he has also explored landscapes in other parts of the world. “There is nothing that reconnects you more to wilderness than contact with a real forest,” he says, especially immersing oneself amid old-growth trees that have witnessed centuries of change, yet seem to exist in a state of timelessness.
No matter the place, the goal is always the same: to connect with the primordial sense of wonder at nature. He says, “The outside world is constantly calling us—you’d have to be crazy to miss that!”
Explore much more on Demeuse’s website and Instagram.
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Na het succes van de Albert Heijn-mini’s komt nu ook IKEA met zijn eigen mini’s. Klanten reageren enthousiast, maar benadrukken ook dat ze in sommige gevallen “dagenlang bezig zijn met het in elkaar zetten van een kartonnen Billy-kast of een Friheten-hoekslaapbank.”
“We zijn al drie dagen bezig om een groene Hemnes-vitrinekast in elkaar te zetten. Elke keer als je denkt dat je er bijna bent, zit er toch weer een onderdeel verkeerd”, zegt Abel (33). “Kan je weer helemaal opnieuw beginnen. Echt een geklooi, zeker als je bedenkt dat we nog 27 van die mini’s hebben liggen”.
“Mijn vriend en ik kregen bij aankoop van een nieuwe lamp voor in de woonkamer de MALM-bed-mini. We hebben schreeuwend tegenover elkaar gestaan toen we het in elkaar probeerden te zetten. Uiteindelijk heeft hij die nacht bij zijn moeder geslapen”, zucht Aisha bij de herinnering. “Hij verweet mij dat ik de handleiding was kwijtgeraakt. Die bleek uiteindelijk in een kiertje van mijn schoenzool te zitten. Ik snap ook niet dat ze die handleiding op schaal hebben gemaakt.”
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