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Space programs and missions · A guided course
Kenya–Italy cooperation, useful contacts and dependable operations
Follow Malindi from offshore launch heritage to ground services, then plan useful contact windows, trace data delivery and examine the people and infrastructure that sustain a mission.
Suggested preparation is listed in the course · Start whenever you’re ready
ESA’s MAL-X tracking terminal at Malindi, published in September 2015. The agency describes this two-metre X-band terminal as added for LISA Pathfinder support. This historical photograph does not establish the station’s current equipment inventory. Full frame retained; technical resizing only.
© ESA · Image source · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGOYour place in the bigger picture
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A precursor mission that improved through ground stations, software and shared reception
From an orbiting instrument to a useful service
Malindi: the ground work behind spaceflight
Kenya–Italy cooperation, useful contacts and dependable operations
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