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Perth Station is an ESTRACK radio antenna station for communication with spacecraft. The station is located 20 km north of Perth, Western Australia on the Perth International Telecommunications Centre campus. The site hosts a 15-metre diameter antenna that transmits in S-band and receives in both S- and X-bands.
The facility is used to routinely communicate with the XMM-Newton spacecraft.
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