# Villafranca

*Ground station*

Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station, Madrid

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 40.4400° N, 3.9500° W |
| State | ES |
| 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 Astronomy Centre (ESAC) near Madrid in Spain is a research centre of the European Space Agency (ESA). ESAC is the lead institution for space science (astronomy, Solar System exploration and fundamental physics) using ESA missions.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=40.44,-3.95
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Astronomy_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.