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    The ESA Optical Ground Station (OGS Telescope or ESA Space Debris Telescope) is the European Space Agency's ground based observatory at the Teide Observatory...
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    Album. Asteroid 284891 Kona, discovered by astronomers at the ESA Optical Ground Station in 2009, was named after the Hawaiian district. The official naming...
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    the first LEO-to-ground laser-communication downlink from JAXA's OICETS LEO satellite and NICT's optical ground station. In 2008, the ESA used laser communication...
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    telescope, installed in 1991. OGS Telescope: 1 m European Space Agency optical ground station for satellite communications, built in 1998. STARE Telescope: 10 cm...
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  • observations were carried out by the Višnjan Observatory (L01), ESA Optical Ground Station (J04), and Cerro Tololo Observatory (807). The asteroid was identified...
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    South Pole Station (U.S.) at the Geographic South Pole. It is jointly operated by scientists from France and Italy and regularly hosts ESA scientists...
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    mission planning; Ground Station Network (GSN). The GSN shall be made up of a mix of ESA ESTRACK stations and commercial stations as Vigil has a specific...
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    be an ESA optical ground station. It will be able to download at speeds of 200 Mbit/s via a laser link using space-to-ground Free-space optical communication...
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    States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). The ISS is the largest space station ever built. Its primary purpose is to perform...
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  • mounted on the ESA's Optical Ground Station telescope in order to observe the disintegration of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3. "ESA's new camera follows...
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    Vonputtkamer, discovered by Matthias Busch and Rainer Kresken at the ESA Optical Ground Station in 2009, was named in his honor. The official naming citation...
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    responsible for the ground segment in particular. In 2021, the company was also awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission...
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  • A. (2016). "New and updated convex shape models of asteroids based on optical data from a large collaboration network". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 586:...
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    telescope OMI built was the CESAR Cebreros Optical Telescope at Cebreros observatory at the ESA Deep Space Tracking Station The telescope is a Cassegrain design...
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    the switch to its last working position. ESA stated in a press release that on 22 October, a ground station at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)...
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    by German astronomers Matthias Busch and Rainer Kresken at the ESA Optical Ground Station in 2009, was named in her honor. The official naming citation...
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    PMID 31386450. S2CID 119075546. Wills, Stewart (July 2019). "Optical Clock Precision Breaks New Ground". Archived from the original on 26 August 2019. Retrieved...
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    the telescope assembly from optical misalignments at those accuracies. NASA signed a memorandum of understanding with ESA on 24 January 2013 describing...
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  • Relay Satellite System, of USA Artemis satellite – ESA GEO satellite 2005-2014, includes optical relay Laser Communications Relay Demonstration – NASA...
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  • the ground-based internet, satellites will interconnect via optical infrared laser connections. Amazon refers to this technology as OISL (optical inter-satellite...
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    Germany. ESA maintains a backup flight control center at a ground station in Kiruna, Sweden. In addition, the ESA operates an x-band core station in Svalbard...
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  • Zimmerwald Observatory ESA Flyeye Telescope at Sicily, Italy As part of the SSA Programme new, dedicated surveillance radar supported by optical sensors systems...
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    instruments are controlled from ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany, ESA's control centre, through ground stations in Belgium (Redu) and California (Goldstone). 2015:...
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    Fluid Science Laboratory (category Science facilities on the International Space Station)
    The Fluid Science Laboratory is a European (ESA's) science payload designed for use in Columbus built by Alenia Spazio, OHB-System and Verhaert Design...
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    Cluster (2000) is an ESA project with 4 satellites in formation to study the Earth's magnetosphere. Mars Express (2003) is an ESA mission to study Mars...
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    Sentinel-5 Precursor (Sentinel-5P) is an Earth observation satellite developed by ESA as part of the Copernicus Programme to close the gap in continuity of observations...
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    the Alphasat in GEO and then relayed to a ground station using a Ka band downlink. On 31 August 2016, ESA announced they had discovered that a solar...
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  • March 2015. On 5 March 2016, 2015 DR215 was recovered by the ESA Optical Ground Station at apparent magnitude 19, at solar elongations below 56 degrees...
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    These nodes are the planet's orbiters and landers, and the Earth ground stations. For example, the orbiters collect the scientific data from the Curiosity...
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    Soviet Orion 1 ultraviolet telescope aboard space station Salyut 1 in 1971. Performing astronomy from ground-based observatories on Earth is limited by the...
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