The Geostationary or Geosynchronous orbit is a ring around the equator, 36 000 kilometres from earth, holding an architecture of mythic proportions.
Goonhilly is connected to four groups - INTELSAT (intelsat was the first geostationary satellite to go up in 1965) INMARSAT (which is the International Maritine Satellite Organisation), PanAmSat and EutelSat. When they started with […]
Goonhilly is no longer transmitting.
The sixty satellite dishes of the largest earth station in the world are being dismantled. Efforts are underway to suggest re purposing of the dishes. The receiving dishes can be used as radio telescopes, they could be used as parabolic antennas to harvest solar energy. They could be used for […]
This phrase came up this morning.
This evening this poem:
Which Apu reads out in the middle of the film Aparajito by Satyajit Ray .
About a month ago I talked to Sundar Sarukkai at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, to ask his perspective on India’s satellite programme, the “impact of satellites on India is tremendous”. He told me about the first phase of satellite technology, Edusat was an experiment in sending lessons to tv sets in schools, via […]
Today I went to find satellites in Trinity. The eclipses are starting soon. They begin short, say a minute and then can be 20 minutes long by August. Shaun Bloomfield told me this. He works with Hinode. Japanese children choose the satellite’s names. Hinode means sunrise. Yohkoh means sunbeam, Yohkoh and Hinode were Solar A […]
These are the highest and lowest points of an orbit around the moon. They say perigee and apogee for the earth.
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