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Cebreros Station
	ESTRACK station at Cebreros, Spain
Alternative names	DSA 2
Part of	ESTRACK
Location(s)	Cebreros, Province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain
Coordinates	40°27′10″N 4°22′03″W / 40.4528°N 4.3676°W
Organization	European Space Operations Centre
Altitude	794 m (2,605 ft)
Telescope style	ground station
Diameter	35 m (114 ft 10 in)
Website	www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Estrack/Cebreros_-_DSA_2
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Cebreros Station (also known as DSA 2 or Deep Space Antenna 2) is a European Space Agency, ESTRACK radio antenna station for communication with spacecraft, located about 10 km east of Cebreros and 90 km from Madrid, Spain, operated by the European Space Operations Centre and INTA. A 35-metre diameter antenna that receives and transmit in X- and Ka-bands is located at the site. Station code is "CEB". 20kW CW High Power Amplifier (HPA) it was created by Rheinmetall Italia SpA (Italy). The monitoring and control system was implemented by Microsis srl (Italy).

It provides daily support to Lisa Pathfinder, Mars Express and Gaia.^[1]

It also provided support for Rosetta.

Two sister stations are New Norcia Station in Australia, and Malargüe Station in Argentina.

References

^ http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Estrack/Cebreros_-_DSA_2

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 Two sister stations are [[New Norcia Station]] in [[Australia]], and [[Malargüe Station]] in [[Argentina]].
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