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Close ✕Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex
The Deep Space Network's European complex, near Robledo de Chavela in the hills west of Madrid, operated in partnership with Spain's Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial.
40.4, -4.3 · approximate · operating since the mid-1960s
Connections
- part of NASA Deep Space Network — The Madrid complex provides the European longitude coverage that keeps a spacecraft continuously in view as the Earth turns.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates