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Goonhilly, Hawaii, but I can't figure out BIK. They're NASA and ESA tracking stations: https://www.eoportal.org/other-space-activities/estrack https://www.eop

by mkl 3y ago

Goonhilly, Hawaii, but I can't figure out BIK. They're NASA and ESA tracking stations: https://www.eoportal.org/other-space-activities/estrack https://www.eoportal.org/other-space-activities/estrack, https://www.indiatoday.in/science/chandrayaan-3/story/how-isro-nasa-esa-tracking-chandrayaan-3-spacecraft-moon-landing-2425025-2023-08-23 https://www.indiatoday.in/science/chandrayaan-3/story/how-is...

mendigou 3y ago
It's a station from DLR in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: https://www.dlr.de/eoc/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5287/10253_read-21996/ https://www.dlr.de/eoc/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5287/102...
- mkl 3y ago
  Confirmed: https://landsat.usgs.gov/historical-international-ground-stations/ https://landsat.usgs.gov/historical-international-ground-sta...
user_7832 3y ago
Fwiw the esa time is the same as Amsterdam Time (cest, get +2)
dmix 3y ago
If the other 2 are NASA and ESA the other BIK is probably a Russian one.
- ray02398 3y ago
  Likely Biak (Indonesia), from https://www.spacetechasia.com/isro-visits-indonesias-space-agency-lapan-to-discuss-chandrayaan-2/ https://www.spacetechasia.com/isro-visits-indonesias-space-a... “ISRO and LAPAN have had a long history of collaboration, with ISRO owning a ground station on the Indonesian island of Biak, which has supported many of India’s launches.”
- varshar 3y ago
  Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
  - fakedang 3y ago
    Nice catch. It's definitely Baikonur.
    - dmix 3y ago
      Thanks :)
jhalstead 3y ago
I'm not very familiar with this source [0], but it states "ESA was providing support to the Chandrayaan-3 mission from three of its ground stations located in Kourou (French Guiana), Goonhilly (United Kingdom), and New Norcia (Western Australia)." Although BIK doesn't obviously map to any of those. [0] http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/chandrayaan-3-european-space-agency-tracking-lander-module-from-three-ground-stations-says-official-11245491.html http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/chandrayaan-3-europea....

by mkl 3y ago

mendigou 3y ago

It's a station from DLR in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: https://www.dlr.de/eoc/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5287/10253_read-21996/ https://www.dlr.de/eoc/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5287/102...

mkl 3y ago
Confirmed: https://landsat.usgs.gov/historical-international-ground-stations/ https://landsat.usgs.gov/historical-international-ground-sta...

user_7832 3y ago

Fwiw the esa time is the same as Amsterdam Time (cest, get +2)

dmix 3y ago

If the other 2 are NASA and ESA the other BIK is probably a Russian one.

ray02398 3y ago
Likely Biak (Indonesia), from https://www.spacetechasia.com/isro-visits-indonesias-space-agency-lapan-to-discuss-chandrayaan-2/ https://www.spacetechasia.com/isro-visits-indonesias-space-a... “ISRO and LAPAN have had a long history of collaboration, with ISRO owning a ground station on the Indonesian island of Biak, which has supported many of India’s launches.”
varshar 3y ago
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
- fakedang 3y ago
  Nice catch. It's definitely Baikonur.
  - dmix 3y ago
    Thanks :)

jhalstead 3y ago

I'm not very familiar with this source [0], but it states "ESA was providing support to the Chandrayaan-3 mission from three of its ground stations located in Kourou (French Guiana), Goonhilly (United Kingdom), and New Norcia (Western Australia)." Although BIK doesn't obviously map to any of those. [0] http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/chandrayaan-3-european-space-agency-tracking-lander-module-from-three-ground-stations-says-official-11245491.html http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/chandrayaan-3-europea....