{"id":308878,"date":"2026-02-21T00:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308878\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:08:10","slug":"national-space-centre-gets-green-light-for-satellite-enclosure-in-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308878\/","title":{"rendered":"National Space Centre gets green-light for satellite enclosure in Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Space Centre has been given the green-light for a satellite enclosure in Kerry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalspacecentre.eu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Space Centre<\/a> Ltd applied to construct a perimeter fenced enclosure in Ballydwyer, Ballymacelligott for the development.<\/p>\n<p>The 0.3 hectare site will house five satellite dish antennas of 3.6 metres maximum height, a control panel, vehicle and pedestrian gates and associated works.<\/p>\n<p>The development, which is located 7KM east of Tralee town, is to provide a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/satellite\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">satellite internet<\/a> earth station\/gateway to connect people to the internet.<\/p>\n<p>User terminals communicate with this gateway via satellite to transmit and receive data.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry County Council granted permission for the development in September.<\/p>\n<p>Appeals were raised highlighting concerns; including fan noise, impact on agricultural land, privacy concerns and impact on wildlife.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pleanala.ie\/en-ie\/home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la<\/a> noted the concerns and granted permission to the development subject to nine conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/planning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">planning<\/a> body noted the satellite site would contribute to the roll-out of broadband services in accordance with national, regional and local objectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Space Centre has been given the green-light for a satellite enclosure in Kerry. National Space Centre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-308878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}