Goonhilly 1 satellite dish. This satellite dish, also known as Arthur, was the first open parabolic dish. It was built in 1962 to link with the Telstar 1 communications satellite. It is now a Grade 2 Listed structure. The 25.9 metre dish weighs 1118 tonnes. In 1974 the Goonhilly dishes delivered a service to cope with 900 simultaneous telephone conversations. Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, once the largest receiving station in the world, was simultaneously handling millions of international phone calls, emails, and TV broadcasts and able to transmit to every corner of the globe through space or through undersea fibre optic cables before closing in 2008.