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Nick James
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Launch on Falcon 9 looked to be perfect and acquisition of signal happened on time at the New Norcia ground station in Australia. As I write this the spacecraft is being tracked and commanded by the 35-m antenna at Cebreros, just outside of Madrid. I haven’t managed to find an ephemeris but it must be pretty close to the Moon in the sky since the shadow of the subreflector (equivalent to the Cassegrain secondary) is almost on top of the beam waveguide entrance aperture (the hole in the main dish). A live image of the antenna is here:

https://tethys.ejr-quartz.com/cebreros/cebreros.jpg

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