ago a couple of years, the European Space Agency installed in Cebreros, a town of Avila, a huge 35-meter in diameter, to communicate with the various spacecraft that now ply our solar system. They were also kind enough to install a webcam on site, focused on the antenna. Recently, I had my computer is downloading from the webcam image every 30 seconds, for almost 26 hours. The result was a 2800 performance of sequential images of the antenna, and just enough to put them in video form. Suddenly we can enjoy the performance of the antenna of a fascinating way.
In the menu on the right is a link to the webcam.
wikipedia page on the antenna:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estación_de_Seguimiento_de_Satélites_de_Espacio_Profundo_de_Cebreros
The main task of the antenna is communicating with the spacecraft Venus Express
, so we can deduce with some certainty that the day period in which the antenna always points to the same place in the sky, corresponding to the communications with the Venus Express. The other communication is difficult to know which correspond mission.
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