page_title: Awarua Tracking Station
hierarchical_section_title: Awarua Tracking Station
caption_attribution_description: English: Awarua Tracking Station of the European Space Agency near Invercargill, New Zealand, with dish-shaped 3.5m diameter tracking antenna deployed. Photo by Robin McNeill. Please credit "Photo by Robin McNeill" when using this photo. Date uncertain during March 2008 (nominally recorded below as 1 March), no notable changes since then as of 2011-04-05
context_page_description: Awarua Satellite Ground Station is an Earth station built initially to support the European Space Agency Ariane 5 ES ATV launch campaigns. It was developed by Venture Southland, a joint committee of the Invercargill City Council, Southland District Council and Gore District Council.
  The site on Awarua Plains was chosen because of its high latitude, low horizons and isolation from sources of radio interference. It has a fibre-optic broadband link to the Internet.
  The station was first used in 2008 to track Jules Verne, and subsequently four more Automated Transfer Vehicles servicing the International Space Station.
  The station now supports many of the well known names in the small-sat world.
context_section_description: Awarua Satellite Ground Station (formerly Awarua Tracking Station) is an Earth station built initially to support  the European Space Agency Ariane 5 ES ATV  (Automated Transfer Vehicle) launch campaigns. It was developed by Venture Southland, a joint committee of the Invercargill City Council, Southland District Council and Gore District Council.  
  The site on Awarua Plains was chosen because of its high latitude, low horizons and isolation from sources of radio interference. It has a fibre-optic broadband link to the Internet.
  The station was first used in 2008 to track Jules Verne, and subsequently four more  Automated Transfer Vehicles servicing the International Space Station.
  The station now supports many of the well known names in the small-sat world.
caption: Awarua Tracking Station, with 3.5m diameter tracking antenna deployed.
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