Ten Amazing Satellite Dishes Every Home Should Have

Being lucky enough to have SKY satellite TV is a real bonus in life, I just feel so lucky to have access to thousands of channels with the same old rubbish on them! But my problem is not with the poor quality TV they offer, but rather a poor amount of colours your dish can come in! Black/grey mesh and that is your lot! But I don’t want an ugly dish attached to the side of my house and it seems that I am not alone. So many people hate the boring designs that giving them a touch of paint and colour has become a real art form, so why don’t we try to discover just what is…


BONUS CONTENT: Top 10 Facts About Satellites


 

Cow Effect Satellite Dish Art
Cow Effect Satellite Dish Art

10 – The cow channel never looked so good!

FACT: Satellites have to travel at 18,000+ mph to counteract the pull of the Earth, That means that each and every satellite circumference of the Earth 14 times!

Sunflower Effect Satellite Dish Art
Sunflower Effect Satellite Dish Art

9 – Urban Fields of Sun Flowers

FACT: Due to the weightlessness in space a satellite gets 3.1 times better fuel economy than a Prius! Even if you reverse this and put the Prius in space it would not match the satellites fuel economy due to its shape and weight.

Cat Effect Satellite Dish Art
Cat Effect Satellite Dish Art

8 – Digital art cat stickers for satellite dishes

FACT: If all of the data that satellites collected in a single year was put onto a blu-ray disc it would be a stack of discs over 500ft tall!

Camouflage Effect Satellite Dish Art
Camouflage Effect Satellite Dish Art

7 – Cloaking device activated

FACT: There really isn’t room to swing a cat up there, as there are over 2,500 satellites in orbit around the Earth and any one time and that number are growing!

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Happy Face Effect Satellite Dish Art
Happy Face Effect Satellite Dish Art

6 – It doesn’t take much to make people smile.

FACT: There are 3 satellites around the world at any given moment that can take instant pictures of a world event down to just 100ft above the ground! Scary indeed.

Moon Face Effect Satellite Dish Art
Moon Face Effect Satellite Dish Art

5 – “That is ‘MR’ dish to you!”

FACT: Despite what most people think defence and intelligence satellites make up just 16% of all satellites in orbit, all the rest is environmental, economic, entertainment and humanitarian sectored satellites.

Scenic View Effect Satellite Dish Art
Scenic View Effect Satellite Dish Art

4 – The scenery channel.

FACT: Most of us should know this one, but it was Russia who placed the first man-made object in orbit around the Earth and it was called Sputnik!

Telescope Effect Satellite Dish Art
Telescope Effect Satellite Dish Art

3 – If you can’t paint on them, paint around them!

FACT: Satcom 1 was the first satellite TV system launched way back in 1975, but it wasn’t until 1977 that the first satellite TV broadcast was ever seen!

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Montana Effect Satellite Dish Art
Montana Effect Satellite Dish Art

2 – The Montana Masterpiece.

FACT: The range that satellites can live it is quite vast! In fact, the nearest to Earth satellite is just 150 miles and the furthest is 22,500 miles away!

Yellow Smiley Face Effect Satellite Dish Art
Yellow Smiley Face Effect Satellite Dish Art

1 – It doesn’t take much to make the world a better place.

FACT: NASA estimates on average one piece from an old rocket, spaceship or satellite returns to Earth each day! But only 8% of them hit land. Still scary if it was just 1% if you ask me.

Author: Gus Barge

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