How To Build A Satellite

Some of the best and most up-to-date communication satellites in the world are designed and built in Stevenage in Britain. With exclusive access to specialist manufacturer Astrium, this programme shows step-by-step how to assemble one of the most complicated machines in the world. The team is followed as they construct a massive communication satellite; from the inner carbon-fibre skeleton to the fuel tanks and engines. At the Portsmouth site, the electronic 'payload' is built and then tested. It has to operate for a minimum of fifteen years - guaranteed, and so precision is everything; these machines are built inside rooms cleaner than the cleanest operating theatre.

How to Build Everything breaks down the step-by-step process behind our world's greatest innovations in a way everyone can understand. From the helicopter to the hovercraft and from the cruise ship to the satellite, each episode will take you on a fun, fascinating, tongue-in-cheek adventure through our most incredible machines.

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