Satellite ground station planned at Murray Bridge North
A proposed development would connect the Murraylands to the super-fast, high-security Telesat Lightspeed communications network.
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The Murraylands has hosted all kinds of high-tech developments in recent years, from solar farms to data centres, but one planned at Murray Bridge North will be something different.
Three tech companies will partner on a satellite ground station which will connect to a super high-speed global communications network.
The Telesat Lightspeed network will offer high-end government and corporate clients data relay speeds much higher than those available through the NBN.
It will also feature top-level security, as the satellite network will be able to transmit information around the world without it ever touching the public internet.
Vocus, operators of an independent fibre-optic data network across Australia, and Mirait Technologies, who build telecommunications infrastructure, will be the other partners in the project.
The Murray Bridge North facility, off Mannum Road, will consist of six satellite dishes, each about five metres high.
The station will connect to clients around South Australia via Vocus’ network of cables.
Vocus have built or are in the process of building 30 of the ground stations around Australia.
There will be no need to worry about the safety of transmissions from the station.
Even at a distance of just 10 metres, the antennas at the site will give off a level of electromagnetic energy 50 times lower than the maximum allowed by law, according to planning documents.
A public consultation period about the development will close next Wednesday.
- Have your say: Visit plan.sa.gov.au before 11.59pm next Wednesday, October 28.
