Goonhilly communications dish, Cornwall, UK. Still working on the Goonhilly site, Guinevere GHY-3 is a giant communications parabolic dish reflector aerial. While not the most famous of the dishes it has been upgraded. In 1974 the Goonhilly dishes delivered a service to cope with 900 simultaneous telephone conversations. Today, Goonhilly simultaneously handles millions of international phone calls, emails, and TV broadcasts, as it is able to transmit to every corner of the globe through space or through undersea fibre optic cables. With over 60 dishes in total, Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station is the largest satellite Earth receiving station in the world. Photographed in 1974. | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Chillmaid, Martyn F. |
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