It takes more than 9½ years for a spacecraft to travel the 5.7 billion kilometres to Pluto. But when the New Horizons mission finally passes the dwarf planet in 2015, Australia will play a pivotal role. An official from the US space agency NASA has confirmed plans to build two new dish antennae at Tidbi...
Ascension Island is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean.
An ESA station was built there in 1991, as the NASA station providing support to Ariane launches was about to be closed.
The United States maintains a GPS monitor station and missile tracking sites on the island.
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