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Apr 5, 2006 4 min

Ears to the sky

from ESApod, audio and video from space Hosted by European Space Agency ESA

Venus Express is being telecommanded via the 35-meter deep-space station in Cebreros, Spain, the newest station to join ESA's global ESTRACK network. Cebreros communicates at X-band Gigaherz radio frequencies, far higher than commercial FM radio frequencies and similar to the ultrahigh frequencies used by mobile phones. ESApod audio programme

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Sending telecommands and receiving data from deep-space missions is a job for ESTRACK, ESA's worldwide network of ground stations.

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