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Photos: The legendary satellite dishes of Goonhilly

Merlin, Arthur and Guinevere - in pictures

Tags: satellite

By Steve Ranger

Published: 22 August 2006 14:35 BST


This is the first antenna constructed, known as Arthur, which was built to track the Telstar satellite and received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the United States in 1962. To give you an idea of the scale of the dish you can just see the tour bus down on the right hand side.

Photo credit: Steve Ranger


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