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Pleumeur-Bodou Ground Station was an early ground station in north-west
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, and one of the first in the world. It was the site of the first satellite transmission between the USA and Europe in the early morning of 11 July 1962 (French time), lasting 19 minutes on the satellite's seventh orbit.International Astronomical Union 2011
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History

The tracking station was developed by France Télécom, now known as
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The site was built by the Centre national d'études des télécommunications, which became France Télécom R&D in 2000. There was also another nearby tracking station at
Lannion Lannion ( ; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. It is a subprefecture of Côtes-d'Armor, the capital of Trégor and the center of an urban area of almost 60,000 inhabitants. Climate Lannion ha ...
, which is also the landing point for the
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from the USA.


First transatlantic satellite broadcast

The first transatlantic satellite broadcast took place at the site on the morning of 11 July 1962. Later that day, France broadcast back to the USA via the satellite.


Structure

The site is around three miles east of
Trébeurden Trébeurden (; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France. Population Inhabitants of Trébeurden are called ''trébeurdinais'' in French. International relations Trébeurden is twinned with: * Vâlcelel ...
. The site has three large parabolic antennas.


Antennas

* PB8


See also

* Raisting Satellite Earth Station, in
Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
* TAT-1, first submarine transatlantic telephone cable, on 25 September 1956 * TAT-8, first transatlantic
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in 1988 *
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References


External links


NASA

Parc du Radôme


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