Sentences with phrase «foot radio dish»
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Underwritten by a $ 26 million donation by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, the array currently consists of 42 dishes, each 20 feet in diameter, which can be used to listen for signals from several stars in many different radio bands simultaneously.
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Fewer than two dozen have been identified in the past decade using giant radio telescopes such as the 1,000 - foot dish in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
The 1,000 - foot - wide dish, which rests in a natural sinkhole, consists of 40,000 aluminum panels (1) that form a radio - reflective surface.
The Breakthrough Listen team studied «Oumuamua — which may be up to a quarter - mile (400 meters) long — across four radio bands that spanned billions of individual channels yesterday (Dec. 13), using an instrument on the 330 - foot (100 m) Green Bank dish.
The VLBA is a system of ten radio - telescope antennas, each with a dish 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter and weighing 240 tons.
On July 18, 2011, the Russian Space Agency launched a satellite into orbit that unfolded into a 10 - meter (33 - foot) dish radio telescope called Spektr - R.
The Very Large Array, in west - central New Mexico, is a radio telescope consisting of 27 dish antennas, each 82 feet in diameter, arranged in the shape of a Y.