Fucino Space Center
Coordinates: 41 ° 58 ′ 44 " N , 13 ° 36 ′ 7" E
The Fucino “Piero Fanti” space center is a satellite ground station near Avezzano in Italy . It is operated by the Italian company Telespazio and is considered the largest civil space center in the world. The center is named after Piero Fanti , the first director of Telespazio.
The first antenna was installed in Fucino in 1962, and the first test connections were made via the Telstar and Relay 1 satellites . With connections via Intelsat I (Early Bird), the station went into commercial operation in 1965.
In 2012, 90 satellite antennas and 14 control rooms were located on an area of 0.37 km². At that time, the two Eutelsat satellites Eutelsat 13A and Eutelsat 13B were controlled from Fucino, as well as the Intelsat 9 satellite and the four satellites of the COSMO-Skymed program .
On December 20, 2010 the Galileo Control Center went into operation in Fucino , one of the two ground stations from which the European Galileo navigation system is controlled. The other is located in the Galileo Control Center (GCC) Oberpfaffenhofen.
Web links
- The Fucino “Piero Fanti” Space Center ( Memento of September 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Telespazio (PDF, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Fucino “Piero Fanti” Space Center. (PDF) Telespazio, June 2007, archived from the original on September 6, 2012 ; accessed on August 8, 2012 (English): "The largest civil space center in the world"
- ↑ Telespazio celebrates 50 years of operations. Telespazio, October 12, 2011, archived from the original on February 3, 2013 ; accessed on August 8, 2012 .
- ^ Fucino ES (Telespazio). uplinkstation.com, August 7, 2012, archived from the original on August 20, 2012 ; accessed on August 8, 2012 .
- ↑ Galileo's navigation control hub opens in Fucino. ESA, December 20, 2010, accessed August 8, 2012 .