ESA ESTRACK network
E415728
The ESA ESTRACK network is the European Space Agency’s global system of ground tracking stations that supports communication with and control of its spacecraft and missions.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ESA ESTRACK | 1 |
| ESA ESTRACK network canonical | 1 |
| ESA Estrack network | 1 |
| ESTRACK | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4140127 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: ESA ESTRACK network Context triple: [European Space Operations Centre, usesNetwork, ESA ESTRACK network]
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A.
European Space Operations Centre
The European Space Operations Centre is the European Space Agency’s main control hub for managing and monitoring its satellites and space missions.
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B.
Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex
The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex is a major NASA facility near Madrid, Spain, equipped with large radio antennas that track and communicate with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
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C.
Deep Space Network
The Deep Space Network is NASA’s global system of large radio antennas used to track, communicate with, and receive data from distant spacecraft throughout the solar system and beyond.
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D.
DLR Galileo Control Center
The DLR Galileo Control Center is a German Aerospace Center facility responsible for operating and monitoring Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system.
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E.
Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex
The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex is a NASA-affiliated ground station in Australia that tracks and communicates with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: ESA ESTRACK network Target entity description: The ESA ESTRACK network is the European Space Agency’s global system of ground tracking stations that supports communication with and control of its spacecraft and missions.
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A.
European Space Operations Centre
The European Space Operations Centre is the European Space Agency’s main control hub for managing and monitoring its satellites and space missions.
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B.
Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex
The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex is a major NASA facility near Madrid, Spain, equipped with large radio antennas that track and communicate with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
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C.
Deep Space Network
The Deep Space Network is NASA’s global system of large radio antennas used to track, communicate with, and receive data from distant spacecraft throughout the solar system and beyond.
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D.
DLR Galileo Control Center
The DLR Galileo Control Center is a German Aerospace Center facility responsible for operating and monitoring Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system.
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E.
Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex
The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex is a NASA-affiliated ground station in Australia that tracks and communicates with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ground station network
ⓘ
spacecraft tracking network ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
ESA ESTRACK network
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
ESTRACK
|
| country | European Space Agency member states ⓘ |
| hasCapability |
Ka-band communication
ⓘ
S-band communication ⓘ X-band communication ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
13-metre antennas
ⓘ
15-metre antennas ⓘ 35-metre deep space antennas ⓘ control centres ⓘ ground communication infrastructure ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Cebreros Station
ⓘ
European Space Operations Centre ⓘ
surface form:
ESOC Mission Control Centre
Kiruna Station ⓘ Kourou Station ⓘ Malargüe Station ⓘ Maspalomas ⓘ
surface form:
Maspalomas Station
New Norcia ⓘ
surface form:
New Norcia Station
Perth Station ⓘ Redu Station ⓘ Santa Maria Station ⓘ Ny-Ålesund research station ⓘ
surface form:
Svalbard Station
Troll Station ⓘ Villafranca Station ⓘ Weilheim Station ⓘ |
| location |
Africa
ⓘ
Antarctica ⓘ Atlantic Ocean region ⓘ Australia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Pacific region ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| managedBy | European Space Operations Centre ⓘ |
| operator | European Space Agency ⓘ |
| ownedBy | European Space Agency ⓘ |
| purpose |
deep space communication
ⓘ
mission control support ⓘ near-Earth mission support ⓘ spacecraft tracking ⓘ telecommand transmission ⓘ telemetry reception ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
JAXA Usuda Deep Space Center
ⓘ
Deep Space Network ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Deep Space Network
|
| startTime | 1960s ⓘ |
| supports |
BepiColombo mission
ⓘ
Earth observation missions ⓘ ExoMars programme ⓘ
surface form:
ExoMars missions
Gaia observatory ⓘ
surface form:
Gaia mission
Galileo-related activities ⓘ International Space Station operations ⓘ Mars Express mission NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosetta mission ⓘ Sentinel missions ⓘ Solar Orbiter mission ⓘ astronomy missions ⓘ navigation missions ⓘ planetary exploration missions ⓘ telecommunications missions ⓘ |
| usesStandard | CCSDS protocols ⓘ |
| website | https://www.esa.int/estrack ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: ESA ESTRACK network Description of subject: The ESA ESTRACK network is the European Space Agency’s global system of ground tracking stations that supports communication with and control of its spacecraft and missions.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Rosetta
this entity surface form:
ESA ESTRACK
this entity surface form:
ESTRACK
this entity surface form:
ESA Estrack network