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Controllers have not heard signals from the almost 9-ton satellite since Sunday, when it was supposed to pass over a ground station in Kiruna, Sweden. "ESA's mission control team declared a spacecraft emergency and immediately called for support from additional ESA tracking stations around the world," the agency said in a statement. "A team of operations and flight dynamics specialists and engineers was quickly assembled."