# Santiago

*Ground station*

Santiago Satellite Station, Peldehue

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 33.1500° S, 70.6700° W |
| State | CL |
| What is done there | satellite ground station |
| 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 Tracking (ESTRACK) network consists of a number of ground-based space-tracking stations belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA), and operated by the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. The stations support various ESA spacecraft and facilitate communications between ground operators and scientific probes such as XMM-Newton, Mars Express, BepiColombo, Gaia.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=-33.15,-70.67
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESTRACK
- 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.