ESTRACK facilities

thumb|ESTRACK antenna in Cebreros|alt= The European Space Tracking (ESTRACK) network consists of a number of ground-based space-tracking stations belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA), and operated by the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. The stations support various ESA spacecraft and facilitate communications between ground operators and scientific probes such as XMM-Newton, Mars Express, BepiColombo, Gaia. Similar networks are run by the USA, China, Russia, Japan, and India.

ES spacecraft communication station, Spain

radiocommunication station

satellite tracking station in Gran Canaria, Spain

ESA tracking station

Australian ground station operated by the European Space Agency

ESA tracking station