Goonhilly Satellite Dish "Merlin"
United Kingdom /
England /
Mullion /
B3293
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The biggest dish at Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station with a diameter of 32 meters. It carried the Live Aid concert in 1985 to over 2 billion people in about 100 countries worldwide.
Photo: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/526151
Photo: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/526151
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goonhilly_Satellite_Earth_Station
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 50°3'1"N 5°10'59"W
- Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station 0.6 km
- Madley Earth Station 275 km
- Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC) - Robledo de Chavela, Spain 1073 km
- NRO "Area 58" Aerospace Data Facility" 5633 km
- Navy Information Operations Command Sugar Grove 5793 km
- EROS Data Center 6543 km
- Fairbanks Command & Data Acquisition Station (FCDAS) 6828 km
- Goldstone Deep Space Communications Tracking Station 8403 km
- Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RIS) 8619 km
- Kaena Point Satellite Tracking Station 11634 km
- Goonhilly Wind Farm 1.5 km
- Croft Pascoe 1.6 km
- Rosuic Common 2 km
- Trelowarren Estate 2.4 km
- Crousa Downs 4.7 km
- Mullion Golf Club 5.8 km
- Main Dale 6.5 km
- RAF Predannack 6.5 km
- Dean Point Quarry 8.1 km
- Cornwall 47 km