14-11-2016, 09:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 14-11-2016, 09:08 AM by ppppenguin.)
Bob, methinks the "maggie" is just a little before your time
Goonhilly was opened in 1962, to work with the Telstar satellite and served many other satellites until 2006. Perhaps you're thinking of the first satellite maritime phone service? Terrestrial satellite telephony dates right back to Early Bird, the first geosynchronous comms satellite in the 1960s.
Quote:I put through the very first satellite phone call from the newly-opened Earth Station at Goonhilly, in 1983 from the anchorage in Port Stanley Harbour.
Goonhilly was opened in 1962, to work with the Telstar satellite and served many other satellites until 2006. Perhaps you're thinking of the first satellite maritime phone service? Terrestrial satellite telephony dates right back to Early Bird, the first geosynchronous comms satellite in the 1960s.
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