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Landkreis Bad Kissingen

Hammelburg

View of the Fuchsstadt Earth Station

Landkreis Bad Kissingen

Hammelburg

View of the Fuchsstadt Earth Station

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View of the Fuchsstadt Earth Station

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

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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: Hammelburg, Landkreis Bad Kissingen, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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