Parabolic Dish at BT Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England, UK.
Parabolic Dish at BT Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England, UK. Popular visitor attraction with a visitor centre and guided bus tour of the 60 Giant Satellite dishes, it is the Largest and Oldest Satellite Station on Earth. Set in the dramatic landscape of the Lizard Peninsula. September 2006 BT announced plans to move the Earth Station to Madley in Herefordshire leaving only the oldest dish on the site Arthur in place because of it’s grade II listed status. Arthur was built to track the Telstar satellite, received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the US in 1962.
Size: 3500px × 5250px
Location: Future World, Goonhilly, Helston, Cornwall, TR12 6LQ, England, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Simon Vine / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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