Re: McManus Obs 5 July 2001

From: Markus Mehring (m.m@gmx.de)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 15:16:07 PDT

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On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 16:07:28 -0400, you (Jonathan T Wojack <tlj18@juno.com>)
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>Would anyone happen to know how big that "receiving parabolic dish" is? 
>It looks enormous!

It is indeed enormous. Those SIGINT sats have really huge dishes, with the
latest generation of them allegedly exceeding 100 meters by far. Aside from
balloon satellites and solar arrays, SIGINT wire-mesh dishes are probably
the largest singular structures ever unfolded in space (not counting long
objects, i.e. TiPS).

CU!	Markus

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