ESA Kiruna Ground Station (1987)

George Sekulla

As the Prime Contractor, commissioning the ESA Kiruna Ground Station in 1987. The Kiruna S- and X-band station supports 18 satellites, including many of ESA's flagship missions such as Aeolus, CryoSat, Integral, the Swarm trio, the Sentinel series of Earth Observation spacecraft, Cluster and CHEOPS. The station will also support SEOSAT and Sentinel-6A through their crucial Launch and Early Orbit phase. For the Estrack network, Kiruna hosts one 15- and one 13-m antenna. Both operate in S-band for uplink and downlink and X-band for downlink. The station is located at Salmijärvi, 38 km east of Kiruna, in northern Sweden.