Watch live streaming video from eurospaceagency at livestream.com
Watch the launch preparations at Kourou, the successful launch, [Read more…]
Help Save Goonhilly Earth Station Complex
October 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Everybody’s heard of Goonhilly, haven’t they? No? I’m amazed, so here’s the story of a piece of UK National and technological heritage and why it desperately needs your support right now.
There’s an urgent petition to the UK Government which needs to be considered and, if agreed with, then signed by all people who do not want to see yet another piece of national heritage callously discarded by short-term-interest politicians and NMP (not my problem) bureaucrats.
If I sound cynical, just look at what the last Government did with the Foreign Office Library. They scrapped it! Apparently, you can now find original, ancient treaties etc of the British Empire for sale on EBay!!!
The petition site is at http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/goonhilly
Goonhilly Downs – a windswept, out-of-the-way location on the Lizard peninsular by the Atlantic Ocean in south west Cornwall, England became a dramatic focal point at the dawn of the satellite communications era. Why, you might ask? [Read more…]
Welcome to the New Satellite Spy Website
September 26, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Welcome to Satellite Spy’s new website at https://satellitespy.net.
For previous followers of the blog when it was located on Blogger – Congratulations! You’ve found its new home.
I’m still fighting a few glitches with the new site, not the least of which is that the Landing page is wrong, coupled with the fact that currently there are two Home pages.
I don’t have the final locations for the different pages nailed down yet, but hopefully that will be sorted out in the next couple of days. When it’s completed [Read more…]
