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Editor's Blog: The pyramids versus Macclesfield
Comment What about the Goonhilly satellite station down in Cornwall where the dish known as Arthur received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the US. A couple of new destinations to add to your holiday list: after you've visited the... [23 Jan 2008]
Photos: BT blows £250m on wind farms
Photo BT has already applied for planning permission for test masts at the Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in Cornwall, Wideford Hill Radio in Orkney and Scousburgh Radio Station in Shetland. Goonhilly was the largest satellite Earth station in the... [19 Oct 2007]
Stories of the month: December 2006
News You can read more here about how technology issues from chip and PIN to MiFID changed the world of financial services throughout the year, and check out silicon.com's giant photo stories of the year article which saw intrepid reporters roaming... [27 Dec 2006]
Goodbye Goonhilly: Satellite service to be shuttered
News BT has revealed plans to move its satellite communications business away from Goonhilly in Cornwall. But a BT spokesman said it was no longer "commercially viable" for the company to operate two satellite Earth stations, and so all of Goonhilly's... [14 Sep 2006]
Cornwall - the new Seattle?
News Click on the links below to find out more about organisations including the satellite Earth station at Goonhilly, the St Austell Brewery and the Eden Project. Cornwall could be the new Seattle if it sets out the right IT strategy, claim local tech... [14 Sep 2006]
Photos of the month - August 06
Photo This is the first dish built at the Goonhilly satellite station in Cornwall. The dishes of Goonhilly Built to track the Telstar satellite, it also received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the US. [31 Aug 2006]
Photos: The legendary satellite dishes of Goonhilly
Photo This is Guinevere, aka Goonhilly 3, one of the dishes at BT's Goonhilly satellite earth station. But the staff still use the original numbers - Goonhilly 1, 2, 3 and so on - to identify them. The undersea fibre optic cables which enter Britain... [22 Aug 2006]
BT Tower preserved for posterity
News The other five buildings listed today are: Equatorial Telescopes, Herstmonceux, East Sussex; Lighthouse, Dungeness, Kent; British Telecom Earth/Satellite Station Antenna No.1, Goonhilly Downs, Cornwall; Radar Training Station, Fleetwood... [26 Mar 2003]
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