{"id":63016,"date":"2019-02-15T01:55:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/avanti-communications-brings-satellite-broadband-to-remote-uk-observatory\/"},"modified":"2019-02-15T01:55:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:55:48","slug":"avanti-communications-brings-satellite-broadband-to-remote-uk-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/avanti-communications-brings-satellite-broadband-to-remote-uk-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Avanti Communications Brings Satellite Broadband to Remote UK Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Avanti Communications<\/strong> is providing satellite broadband services to the <strong>Tolcarn Observatory<\/strong>, a Cornish astronomy observatory in the United Kingdom.This service will help expand the observatory\u2019s research and educational work. The Tolcarn Observatory\u2019s mission is to make astronomy accessible to all, through links with schools and the <strong>Tolcarn Astronomy Group<\/strong>, as well as research looking for new exoplanets.<\/p>\n<p>Because of its remote location, the observatory was unable to connect to high speed broadband, and was instead relying on a mobile data connection. \u201cIt was becoming so restrictive that I had considered relocating the whole facility to Scotland,\u201d explained Tolcarn Observatory Center Director Grant Mackintosh.&nbsp;Mackintosh can also use the satellite broadband connection to remotely control the facility\u2019s telescopes housed in two domes and in the rolloff roof observatory. Schools can now have access to the facility and its experts via <strong>Skype<\/strong> and Mackintosh can easily share data from his research work searching for exoplanets with colleagues in North America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we heard that the great work of the Tolcarn Observatory was being hindered by a lack of superfast broadband we immediately realised that our service was the perfect solution. It\u2019s great to see our space-based service helping out fellow stargazers but the Avanti satellite solution is also ideal for any Cornish rural business which cannot currently get a fast connection,\u201d said Avanti Communications European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Cornwall Superfast Satellites Project Coordinator Andy Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avanti Communications is providing satellite broadband services to the Tolcarn Observatory, a Cornish astronomy observatory in the United Kingdom.This service will help expand the observatory\u2019s research and educational work. The Tolcarn Observatory\u2019s mission is to make astronomy accessible to all, through links with schools and the Tolcarn Astronomy Group, as well as research looking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}