On 10 August, ESA’s tracking station at New Norcia, Western Australia received signals transmitted by NASA’s Cassini orbiter at Saturn, through 1.44 billion km of space. “This was the farthest-ever reception for an ESA station, and the radio signals took 80 minutes to cover this vast distance,” says ESA’s Daniel Firre. Full caption via http://www.esa.int/longest_call How we’re using New Norcia to support NASA’s Cassini Grand Finale via http://www.esa.int/mostdistantcatch Image credit: ESA/D. O’Donnell
