December 20, 2012

Image of Mars received by the Deep Space Antenna 3 station (Photo ESA)

Tuesday, near Malargüe, a city in Argentina about 1,550 meters above sea level, the new ESA’s Deep Space Antenna 3 (DSA 3) station was officially opened, a parabolic antenna of 35 meters in diameter capable to transmit and receive in the X-band and receive in the Ka band. The structure that supports the moving antenna is 40 meters high and weighs 610 tons.