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Ground Station Development at Awarua, New Zealand

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The French space agency (CNES) needed to acquire Ariane 5 launcher telemetry leading up to and including spacecraft separation that would occur south-east of New Zealand for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) campaigns to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). No established ground stations were available for this purpose.

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    Awarua is a Maori place name meaning “two rivers” from awa (river) and rua (two). It is pronounced awaruɐ.

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The authors thank their colleagues at Venture Southland for their support in preparing this paper, Dr Stephen McNeill of Landcare Research for his assistance and Dr Maria Pozza of Lane Neave for her valuable contributions.

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  1. Venture Southland, Invercargill, New Zealand

    Robin G. McNeill & Stephen F. Canny

  2. School of People Environment and Planning, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Jeffrey K. McNeill

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  1. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA

    Craig Cruzen

  2. German Space Operations Center, DLR - German Aerospace Center, Weßling, Germany

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  3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA

    Young H. Lee

  4. Lunar Exploration Research Division, Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Bangyeop Kim

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McNeill, R.G., McNeill, J.K., Canny, S.F. (2017). Ground Station Development at Awarua, New Zealand. In: Cruzen, C., Schmidhuber, M., Lee, Y., Kim, B. (eds) Space Operations: Contributions from the Global Community. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51941-8_15

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