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A new radio dish is working at ESA’s New Norcia, Western Australia, tracking station, ready to catch the first signals from new missions. The new dish, installed in 2015, is just 4.5 m across and can lock onto and track new satellites during the critical initial orbits, up to roughly 100 000 km out. It can also ‘slave’ the much larger 35-m deep space dish located at New Norcia, which can then receive ranging data and telemetry – onboard status information – from the new spacecraft.