# ESTEC

*Test range*

ESA European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 52.2200° N, 4.4200° E |
| State | I-ESA |
| What is done there | spacecraft test centre |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) is the European Space Agency's main technology development and test centre for spacecraft and space technology. It is situated in Noordwijk, South Holland, in the western Netherlands, although several kilometers off the village but immediately linked to the most Northern district of the nearby town Katwijk.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=52.22,4.42
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Research_and_Technology_Centre
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.