KENNEDY ANTENNAS… Probe the secrets of inter-stellar space (Sep, 1956)
KENNEDY ANTENNAS… Probe the secrets of inter-stellar space
Somewhere in the nearly empty reaches of outer space, two hydrogen atoms collide. After a 100-million year journey at the speed of light, the signal generated by that accidental collision reaches a super-sensitive radio telescope antenna in Massachusetts and is recorded — and so one grain more is added to man’s knowledge of the universe.
Modern miracles like this happen every day at Harvard University’s Agassiz Station Observatory, where a giant new radio telescope, with its 60′ Kennedy antenna, is taking man further back in time . . . and further out into space . . . than he has ever been before.ANTENNA EQUIPMENT
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Comment by Tim — April 14, 2011 @ 12:50 pm
I had to take a second look at this – at first I thought they might be devices for tracking certain members of the Kennedy family.
Comment by Toronto — April 14, 2011 @ 2:20 pm
Toronto: Not necessary, you can just track them by the scandals.
Comment by John — April 14, 2011 @ 2:27 pm
What do you mean I have to pay extra for the movie channels!?!
Comment by Hirudinea — April 14, 2011 @ 3:21 pm
I’m looking for specs on the 60 foot dish supplied to the Air Force for missile tracking in 1956: motor parameters, focal length and max freq for the dish irregularities not to cause problems. A group of students at Princeton are considering restoring a TLM-18 in NJ for space studies.
Comment by Frank Coxe — January 12, 2012 @ 2:41 pm