Members of the MIRAD microwave team participated in the European Space Agency's (ESA) 9th International Workshop on Telemetry, Tracking and Command (TT&C). The conference was held at ESA's Space Research…
The European Space Agency (ESA) runs several scientific exploration and research deep space missions e.g. Rosetta, Mars-Express, Venus-Express or space observatories like Herschel or Planck. To ensure a reliable communication with such deep space probes, ESA has built up a ground station antenna network all over the globe.
In the early 2000s, more and more satellite missions were planned to collect large amounts of data or to enable broadband communications. At that time, however, only few ground stations…