The European Space Agency’s new powerful 35-metre radio antenna in Cebreros, Spain came online earlier this month, to assist communications with the agency’s growing fleet of spacecraft. Construction of the dish went very quickly; workers only broke ground a little more than a year ago. The dish has already received signals from the ESA’s Rosetta and SMART-1 spacecraft as well as several radio-emitting stars. The Cebreros dish will also support the Venus Express spacecraft, due for launch in October 2005.