Fighting for Space

Synopsis: In the hundred years since Marconi transmitted his first wireless message, our communications base has been expanded many times over. Marconi’s wireless systems allowed the first men on the moon to tell us about it first-hand and we were able to see them there. With radio wave technology now commonplace, the biggest problem is the overlapping of systems. Just as light from cities destroyed optical astronomy in urban areas, today the proliferation of mobile phones is causing radio pollution, disrupting space-surveying equipment. As mobile phone technology prepares to step into space, communicating directly with a web of satellites circling the earth, things can only get worse for scientists.
Series: Digital Communications, Course T305
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.
Year of production: 1999
Availability: Off-air recording licence
Sale; 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects: Astronomy; Information technology
Keywords: digital telecommunications; radioastronomy

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