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LIBREVILLE-GAB1 station

Location of the Libreville station – global view

          Name : GAB1

          Location : Libreville – Gabon

          Latitude : 0.3554

          Longitude: 9.4496

          Hosting : Ariane Downstream Telemetry Station

          Start-up : August, 22 2019

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Location of the Libreville station – close-up view

Libreville station is located in N’Koltang, Gabon, 40 km from Libreville airport. It is installed on a site that is part of an ESA network of downlink telemetry stations, used in particular to monitor the Ariane, Vega and Soyuz launchers.

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Location of the Libreville station – close-up view
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Station installed in Libreville

Currently this station is configured to receive data from the NOAA 19 weather satellite. The reconstructed images make it possible to check the quality of the site and to identify possible degradations on the reception of the signals.

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Image reconstituted in infrared from data sent by the NOAA 19 satellite
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