European Space Agency 

The New Norcia station, DSA 1 (Deep Space Antenna 1), hosts a 35-metre deep-space antenna with transmission and reception in both S- and X-band and is located 140 killometres north of Perth, Western Australia, close to the town of New Norcia in the Shire of Victoria Plains. DSA-1 is designed for communicating with deep-space missions and provides support to spacecraft such as Mars Express, Rosetta and Gaia for routine operations.

The antenna and terminal infrastructure were newly completed in 2002 with successful pointing tests conducted with NASA's Stardust mission, and the station entered service as ESA's first deep-space station in March 2003.

ESA Deep Space Antenna NNO-3 

• Construction begins on a new ESA giant in Australia

Watch the lift of the antenna dish.

• ESA crowns new deep-space antenna in Australia

Challenge! Can you identify which one is New Norcia and which one is the Cebreros station in Spain?

• Ground station chillax

Watch the ESA Live TV

• ESA - ESA Web TV

The links provided below are endeavours that the New Norcia Antenna was involved in during 2024. Please feel free to click on each link for more information and some fascinating videos.

Launches supported with the small NNO2 Antenna in 2024

• ESA Television - Videos - 2024 - 12 - ESA 2024 Highlights: flight of the Ariane 6
• ESA Television - Videos - 2024 - 11 - Sentinel-1C on Vega-C return to flight, VV25
• ESA Television - Videos - 2024 - 08 - Last Vega Launch - Sentinel-2C

 Launch and Early Orbit phase

• ESA Television - Videos - 2024 - 03 - Hera: ESA's planetary defence mission - Animations

 From Missions supported by New Norcia:

• ESA Television - Videos - 2024 - 11 - Fly around Ares Vallis on Mars
• ESA Television - Videos - 2024 - 12 - Cosmic jingles: listen to Euclid’s image of M78

The Shire is working closely with ESA to identify tourism partnership opportunities which will allow visitors to our region to visit the New Norcia station.