The Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station is a major British Telecom communications hub with over 60 satellite dishes and links to undersea cables. The facility is close to our B&B and made a good stop off point before heading back to London. The first dish onsite 'Arthur' received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the United States via the Telstar satellite on July 11, 1962. After looking around the complex we took a guided tour of Arthur to learn more about how the process works. Interestingly, Arthur is still used for communications with shipping in the Pacific ocean. The museum is very interesting and includes free phone calls around the world as well as access to the world's fastest internet cafe where each computer has a guaranteed internet connection of 100Mbps.
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