It became known that the European ground stations for the first time in history received scientific data from the Russian spacecraft, which was the Spektr-RG orbital astrophysical observatory. This is stated in the message, which was on the official website of the state corporation Roscosmos.
βIn the spring of this year, Russian ground stations, usually used for communication with Spektr-RG, were in an unfavorable location for receiving signals due to their geographical coordinates. Experts from the ESA Ground Station Network called ESTRACK (the European Space Tracking network) came to the rescue by teaming up in close cooperation with Russian colleagues working with the Russian Scientific Information Receiving Complex. Three 35-meter ESA parabolic antennas located in Australia, Spain and Argentina were used for a series of 16 communication sessions with Spectrum-RG, as a result of which 6,5 GB of scientific data were received. ".
It is also noted that this cooperation clearly demonstrates that Roscosmos and ESA can fruitfully cooperate using their own technologies. Another similar project is scheduled for this year, within the framework of which specialists from the Russian ground station will receive scientific data from two spacecraft orbiting Mars. We are talking about the European ESA Mars Express and Trace Gas Orbiter, which was built as part of the ExoMars joint project implemented by Roscosmos and ESA.
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