Object
Liz Shaw's Space Control Communications Room Telephone
Liz Shaw lifts the receiver in the crowded Space Control Communications Room to take a call from Nancy in France. The line delivers confirmation that global radio telescopes—Haystack, Algonquin, Arecibo—have triangulated the Mars Probe 7 signal to a London warehouse seven miles away. Wakefield, the Doctor, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Taltalian, and Cornish listen amid rising urgency as the Doctor demands coordinates and a map.
2 appearances
Purpose
Receive international confirmation of signal triangulation
Significance
Localizes the distress signal to an abandoned warehouse, turning passive monitoring into direct UNIT action against the threat
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