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Landkreis Bad Kissingen

Hammelburg

Fuchsstadt Earth Station

Landkreis Bad Kissingen

Hammelburg

Fuchsstadt Earth Station

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Fuchsstadt Earth Station

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

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Günther🦎

January 2, 2025

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March 18, 2024

The Fuchsstadt earth station is an earth station in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen in the municipality of Fuchsstadt. It was built by the German Federal Post Office 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 in the global communications network; this importance has been lost because the vast majority of continental and intercontinental message exchanges are now handled via fiber optic cables.

The earth station has 50 parabolic antennas, including two type A antennas with a diameter of 32 meters and around 25 others with a diameter of more than 9.3 meters each. The earth station is one of the largest satellite communications facilities 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 far away in the Saale valley.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdfunkstelle_Fuchsstadt

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

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1. Saale Bridge Westheim – Old Saale Bridge Elfershausen loop from Bad Kissingen

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