By Juha Saarinen on May 3, 2021 12:26PM Million dollar joint European and Australian space agencies project. A second, 35-metre dish antenna will be built at the European Space Agency's (ESA) New Norcia station in Western Australia, with a budget of €45 million (A$70 million) for procurement, construction and building and service upgrades. ESA and the Australian Space Agency jointly announced the build of the new antenna, which weighs 620 tonnes. The new Deep Space Antenna 2 will use cryogenically cooled antenna feed, at just 10 Kelvin, or -263 centigrade, to achieve a 40 percent improvement at the high S and X-band frequencies used for space craft command and control systems.