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  1. Satellite Communications At Goonhilly

    Date released
    Jul 1966
    Series name
    Carrousel Britanico
    Issue no
    19
    NoS ID
    324672
    Story no
    2 / 5

    NoS synopsis: Two engineers from Chile visit the GPO earth satellite relay station at Goonhilly Downs.

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  2. Motion: Newton’s Laws (1989 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Attempts to discover why Newton’s laws of motion are not normally observed directly on earth, even though they appear to work in an orbiting space station, for example Skylab. To minimise the effects of...

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  3. Precise Giants (1981 Film, Video)

    Director
    Ted Poulter
    Producer
    Mike Capon
    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Discusses big earth-station antennas for transmitting and receiving. Deals with different antennas, accuracy demands, weather effects and manufacturing. Includes footage of Richard Dimbleby commentating on...

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  4. Satellite Communications (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Free loan Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 22 min. Teachers’ and students’ notes supplied

    Looks at satellite communications from Marconi’s pioneering work with radio waves to Arthur C Clarke’s vision of worldwide communication using geostationary satellites, to Intelsat VI. Other topics...

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  5. Mir Mortals (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Jill Fullerton-Smith
    Subject
    Space science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Tells the story of four men who orbited the earth in 1997 on board the ill-fated space station ‘Mir’. With both the future of manned space flight and their lives in balance, the astronauths and...

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  6. Space (13 Parts) (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Space science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 60 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 each part (inclusive)

    A series investigating the universe using video recordings taken from space. Filmed by astronaut Claude Nicollier, with contributions from scientists and experts at the European Space Agency. 1: Images of...

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  7. Protein From Plants

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    99
    NoS ID
    351697
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: At the Rothamsted Experimental Station near London they’re using a "mechanical cow" to remove the indigestible cellulose fibres from plants, leaving a valuable protein powder which can be...

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  8. Protein From Plants

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    99
    NoS ID
    351700
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: At the Rothamsted Experimental Station near London they’re using a "mechanical cow" to remove the indigestible cellulose fibres from plants, leaving a valuable protein powder which can be...

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  9. Something new under the sun

    Date released
    1946
    Series name
    Britain Can Make It
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    352049
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: Every now and then the sun behaves in a very strange way - and this behaviour is due to things called sunspots. Sunspots are actually whirlpool craters of flame, which appear on the sun’s...

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  10. Mysteries of Space (2008)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 158 minutes), £19.99

    A two-volume collection of vintage US documentaries on the origins of the universe and space exploration, featuring distinguished scientists and guest narrators. Films comprise: Disc 1 A View of the Sky -...

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