ESA ESTRACK network

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ground station network spacecraft tracking network

The ESA ESTRACK network is the European Space Agency’s global system of ground tracking stations that supports communication with and control of its spacecraft and missions.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
ESA ESTRACK	1
ESA ESTRACK network canonical	1
ESA Estrack network	1
ESTRACK	1

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ground station network ⓘ spacecraft tracking network ⓘ
abbreviation	ESA ESTRACK network self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: ESTRACK
country	European Space Agency member states ⓘ
hasCapability	Ka-band communication ⓘ S-band communication ⓘ X-band communication ⓘ
hasComponent	13-metre antennas ⓘ 15-metre antennas ⓘ 35-metre deep space antennas ⓘ control centres ⓘ ground communication infrastructure ⓘ
hasPart	Cebreros Station ⓘ European Space Operations Centre ⓘ surface form: ESOC Mission Control Centre Kiruna Station ⓘ Kourou Station ⓘ Malargüe Station ⓘ Maspalomas ⓘ surface form: Maspalomas Station New Norcia ⓘ surface form: New Norcia Station Perth Station ⓘ Redu Station ⓘ Santa Maria Station ⓘ Ny-Ålesund research station ⓘ surface form: Svalbard Station Troll Station ⓘ Villafranca Station ⓘ Weilheim Station ⓘ
location	Africa ⓘ Antarctica ⓘ Atlantic Ocean region ⓘ Australia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Pacific region ⓘ South America ⓘ
managedBy	European Space Operations Centre ⓘ
operator	European Space Agency ⓘ
ownedBy	European Space Agency ⓘ
purpose	deep space communication ⓘ mission control support ⓘ near-Earth mission support ⓘ spacecraft tracking ⓘ telecommand transmission ⓘ telemetry reception ⓘ
relatedTo	JAXA Usuda Deep Space Center ⓘ Deep Space Network ⓘ surface form: NASA Deep Space Network
startTime	1960s ⓘ
supports	BepiColombo mission ⓘ Earth observation missions ⓘ ExoMars programme ⓘ surface form: ExoMars missions Gaia observatory ⓘ surface form: Gaia mission Galileo-related activities ⓘ International Space Station operations ⓘ Mars Express mission NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosetta mission ⓘ Sentinel missions ⓘ Solar Orbiter mission ⓘ astronomy missions ⓘ navigation missions ⓘ planetary exploration missions ⓘ telecommunications missions ⓘ
usesStandard	CCSDS protocols ⓘ
website	https://www.esa.int/estrack ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: ESA ESTRACK network
Description of subject: The ESA ESTRACK network is the European Space Agency’s global system of ground tracking stations that supports communication with and control of its spacecraft and missions.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

European Space Operations Centre → usesNetwork → ESA ESTRACK network ⓘ

Rosetta (on earlier Ariane 5 variant family) → deepSpaceNetworkSupport → ESA ESTRACK network ⓘ

subject surface form: Rosetta

this entity surface form: ESA ESTRACK

ESA ESTRACK network → abbreviation → ESA ESTRACK network self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: ESTRACK

ESA ground stations → partOf → ESA ESTRACK network ⓘ

this entity surface form: ESA Estrack network