£24m Goonhilly investment

摘要

UK businessman Peter Hargreaves has joined the private space race with a £24m investment in the Goonhilly Earth Station based on Cornwall's Lizard peninsula.The funding - the largest single investment in the facility - will see Hargreaves, who is the founder of financial services company Hargreaves Lansdown, take a controlling share in the site.Once the largest satellite earth station in the world, Goonhilly is famous for its role in the first transatlantic TV transmission which was made using Telstar, the world's first telecommunications satellite. It also beamed the lunar landings in 1969.Current owner GoonhiUy Earth Station Ltd acquired the facility from BT in 2014 and has since invested £5m in rejuvenating the site, which provides spacecraft tracking and monitoring services to satellite operators.