Antenna dome in Maine
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This is the ground station in Andover, Maine. Inside the distinctive dome was a sizable microwave antenna that, according to NASA, tracked the Telstar satellite for the half-hour or so that it was passing overhead during its elliptical low-Earth orbit.

July 12, 2012 1:47 PM PDT

Photo by: Courtesy of Alcatel-Lucent

| Caption by: Jonathan Skillings

 

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