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Originally posted by masraum
Many hills around there? Low look angles? That thing looks like it's up on a pretty tall pedestal.

How big?
That's a Teeny one. 14M diameter We've done up to 34M.

The main reason for the bunkhouse is that the system equipment is housed there with fiber IFLs to the main control room. Extremely serious lightning there so the further from Control the better. NASA used to track from here during the Moon missions.
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Old 03-24-2007, 10:15 PM
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