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The European Space Agency Malargüe elected to install a receiving antenna of the probes sent to Venus and Mars. You will have 35 meters in diameter and 40 tall.

The European Space Agency told the National Commission on Space Activities (CONAE), his argentina, who chose to install a Malargüe support interplanetary missions in that city.

“The Agency informed us that Malargüe was the site chosen to install its antenna 35 meters in diameter and 40 tall, about 60 tons, for the monitoring of robotic missions to Venus and Mars,” said Felix Telam Menicocci , secretary general of CONAE.

This is the third earth station of the “Deep Space”, with two receiving antennas located 35 meters in Cebreros, Spain, and New Norcia, Australia, like the one installed in about two years in Argentina, reported Menicocci.

In these unmanned interplanetary missions, the European agency sends several planetary satellites and asteroids. “They needed a place to which the information gathered by the probes were cleaned and decided to deploy the antenna in a private property owner Malargüe that gave the municipality, which in turn is on free for 50 years to CONAE” said.

In turn, Menicocci commented that “the antenna is quite automated,” and the country will have access to its use in “a percentage of the time, so the CONAE going to call for scientists to understand their requirements Argentines” to investigate .

“That they have chosen to Argentina has to do with the development of the whole space is a recognition and the ability to” local, claimed Menicocci. In a communique, the Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, who chairs the board of the CONAE, described this decision as “a milestone for the Argentine space development.”

Vía Mdzol.com