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Fuchsstadt

Fuchsstadt Earth Station

Landkreis Bad Kissingen

Fuchsstadt

Fuchsstadt Earth Station

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Fuchsstadt Earth Station

Name: Fuchsstadt Earth Station
Rating: 2

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Location: Fuchsstadt, Landkreis Bad Kissingen, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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Bernd "Eye see you"

November 15, 2020

The earth station was originally four large mirrors, which has now become.

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Loki 🚴

August 12, 2018

The "highlights" in the life of this earth station were probably the satellite transmission of the Football World Cup of 1998 in France, the Australian Open in tennis and the Olympic Games in Nagano in 1998.

Anyone who wants to know more is in good hands with Wikipedia:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdfunkstelle_Fuchsstadt

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MS 🚴‍♂️

October 2, 2023

The Fuchsstadt earth station is an earth station in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen in the area of the municipality of Fuchsstadt. It was built by the Deutsche Bundespost and is now operated by the US company Intelsat. The Fuchsstadt earth station serves as a ground station for communication with communications satellites and enables, among other things, satellite-based telephone calls, Internet connections and television broadcasts. Until the 1990s, Fuchsstadt was an important hub of the global communications network; This importance has been lost because the vast majority of continental and intercontinental communications are now carried out via fiber optic cables.

There are 50 parabolic antennas at the earth station, including two type A antennas with a diameter of 32 meters and around 25 others, each more than 9.3 meters. The earth station is therefore one of the largest satellite communications systems in the world. It is Intelsat's first earth station in Europe and also the largest of the six that the company operates. With its large parabolic antennas it is visible from afar in the Saale Valley.

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Location: Fuchsstadt, Landkreis Bad Kissingen, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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Fuchsstadt Earth Station

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3. View of Trimburg Castle – Market Fountain, Hammelburg loop from Sulzthal

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