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ESA signs arrangement with New Zealand on tracking station

ESA PR 17-2007. Today ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and Her Excellency Ms Sarah Dennis, New Zealand's Ambassador to France, signed an arrangement on the installation of a transportable telemetry station to track the Ariane 5 launcher that will carry into orbit ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for its maiden flight in autumn this year.

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