On a hill about 700 metres south west of the launch site is the telemetry centre, where balloon tracking, telemetry receiving and telecommanding are conducted.

Telemetry downlink S Band Direct 2 4 kilobits per second

In May 1987, a new telemetry centre was constructed at the top of Mount Ohkubo, 4.1 kilometres west of the launch site.

Instead, when you speak, you're actually using a form of telemetry not so different from the remote control device for your television.

The Centre has its second area of business in the provision of tracking, telemetry and command services, 24 hours per day, all year round.

It was utterly impossible to adopt internal telemetry technology in the past, because a tiny object cannot be put into a very deep place, explained he.

So there it was, Thursday morning we stopped the pig's medication and there is his electrogram, the signal from inside the pig's heart coming out by radio telemetry.

NASA uses ground based telecommunications facilities to provide telemetry, command, and navigation services to a number of NASA, other United States, and international spacecraft such as the Space Shuttle other Earth orbiting spacecraft planetary orbiters and international spacecraft.

It started operating in October 1984. A large parabolic antenna 64 metres in diameter, a receiver, a transmitter and a ranging system in S band are provided at the Centre to serve as a deep space tracking, telemetry and command station.

In order to try to answer some of these questions, we again turn to technology, to biological technology, in this case, again, telemetry, putting radios on 10 gharial, and actually following their movements. They're being watched everyday as we speak, to try to find out what this mysterious toxin is.

The Kagoshima Space Centre (KSC) is located in a mostly hilly area of Uchinoura cho, on the east coast of Ohsumi Peninsula, Kagoshima Prefecture. Covering a total of 71 hectares, the area of KSC includes various facilities for launching rockets, telemetry and tracking, command stations for rockets and satellites and optical observation posts, at sites developed by flattening the tops of several hills.