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European Space Agency to build Australian antenna “able to detect mobile phone on Mars” – Innovation – GCR – GCR
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Australian Space Agency have announced the construction of ……
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Australian Space Agency have announced the construction of a second 35m deep space radio antenna at the New Norcia station, 140km north of Perth in Western Australia.
The 620-tonne Deep Space Antenna 2 (DSA 2) will cost €45m to build and, when complete, will be sensitive enough to detect signals “far weaker than a mobile phone on the surface of Mars”.
In fact, the dishes can communicate with spacecraft as far out as 1.5 billion kilometres – about the distance…
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