Goonhilly Earth Station is a pioneering UK-based commercial space and satellite communications provider. It offers deep-space tracking and communication services for missions to the Moon and Mars, supporting agencies like ESA, NASA, and ISRO, as well as private space exploration companies. Goonhilly also provides satellite services from LEO to GEO, including uplink/broadcast and telemetry tracking, with over 90 antennas worldwide.
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The trial is being completed by a Viasat-led UK team including Goonhilly Earth Station, CGI UK, GMV, Ordnance Survey, Cranfield University, the Cranfield National Flying Laboratory Centre, and Pildo Labs.
The UK SBAS trial is being completed by a Viasat-led team that includes Goonhilly Earth Station, CGI UK, GMV, Ordnance Survey, Cranfield University, the Cranfield National Flying Laboratory Center, and Pildo Labs.
The UK SBAS trial is being completed by a Viasat-led team that includes Goonhilly Earth Station, CGI UK, GMV, Ordnance Survey, Cranfield University, the Cranfield National Flying Laboratory Centre, and Pildo Labs.
Goonhilly has offered the world’s only private lunar and deep space communications service from its UK site since 2021.
Goonhilly operates from the Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall, UK.
Goonhilly will collaborate with ESA’s ESTRACK network to provide communication and tracking support for the Aditya-L1 mission from its early stages.
Goonhilly Earth Station is providing support for ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander mission during the cruise, lunar orbit, and on-surface operations phases.
ESA’s deep-space communication antennas and Goonhilly’s GHY-6 will track the spacecraft, determine their locations, transmit commands, and receive telemetry and scientific data for Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya-L1.
Goonhilly Earth Station will support Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission during the cruise, lunar orbit, and on-surface operations phases.
Goonhilly Earth Station validated lunar telemetry and tracking capabilities for IM-1 by successfully acquiring and tracking NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in an exercise with Intuitive Machines personnel.
Goonhilly’s GHY-6 antenna will work alongside ESA’s Kourou antenna in French Guiana to support the Chandrayaan-3 mission.
The commercial Goonhilly Earth Station in the United Kingdom will provide support for HAKUTO Mission 1 as part of the Estrack extended network.
The COSMIC mission will be developed in collaboration with 10 UK-based partner companies including MDA UK, Thales Alenia Space UK, Nammo, GMV-NSL, NORSS, Goonhilly, Satellite Applications Catapult, and Willis Towers Watson.
Piran Composites secured a contract with Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. to build antennas.
Spaceport Cornwall is operated by a consortium comprising Virgin Orbit, the UK Space Agency, Goonhilly Earth Station, and the Cornwall Council unitary authority.
Steve Jones co-founded Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd., contributing significantly to its start-up and early business development.
Inmarsat, Goonhilly Earth Station Limited, and GMVNSL Limited are delivering UK Space Agency-funded tests with the European Space Agency via ESA’s Navigation Innovation and Support Program (NAVISP).
Since 2014 the partners in Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. have been focused on building the company and investing in the site.
Intuitive Machines and Goonhilly Earth Station are offering commercial services for lunar communications using GHY-6 and Intuitive Machines’ Lunar Telemetry and Tracking Network.
Goonhilly provides connectivity and operational solutions to GEO, MEO, and LEO satellite fleet operators, broadcasters, space agencies, governments, and commercial enterprises operating in cis-lunar and deep space.