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The WAEFR antenna features the high performance gain of a dish with the beam agility of an ESA.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkNarrative GeneralAug 23, 2021Lockheed Martin Invents New Satellite Dish Technology

The WAEFR antenna is a hybrid of a phased array Electronically Steerable Antenna (ESA) and a parabolic dish, increasing coverage area by 190 percent compared to traditional phased array antennas.

Mentioned as: dishTechnical ProductAug 23, 2021Lockheed Martin Invents New Satellite Dish Technology

Starlink charges customers $500 for a user terminal dish, which currently costs the company more than $1,000 to produce.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkOrg RelationshipJul 1, 2021OneWeb hits coverage goal with latest launch, sets sights on southern regions

The sixth new antenna is a 2.7-metre Laminas dish equipped to capture simultaneous feeds from the orbital positions 7° east, 13° east, and 19.2° east.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkNarrative GeneralJun 22, 2021A Multi-Antenna Satellite Link System Is Completed By Hiltron For German News Broadcast System

Dish Network plans to deploy wireless services using a 0.005 kg Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) virtualized network architecture that mostly runs through the cloud.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkNarrative PlanJun 7, 2021EchoStar puts faith in third nanosatellite for global S-band plan

Dish Network is building out a terrestrial wireless network partly using S-band spectrum it acquired nearly a decade ago for North America.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkTechnical ProductJun 7, 2021EchoStar puts faith in third nanosatellite for global S-band plan

Dish Network entered a partnership on 2021-04-21 to use Amazon Web Services cloud services to build out its 0.005 kg network across the United States.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkOrg RelationshipJun 7, 2021EchoStar puts faith in third nanosatellite for global S-band plan

The 32-meter GHY-6 satellite dish underwent a two-year upgrade program funded by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership, the UK Space Agency, and ESA.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkNarrative GeneralFeb 18, 2021Goonhilly Has a New Antenna and They Plan to Use It for the Mars Landing

In 2019 Sandor Nemethy led the acquisition process that moved the spacecraft operations team and several satellites from EchoStar to Dish.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkNarrative GeneralFeb 2, 2021New Director Of GEO Spacecraft Systems @ Astroscale U.S.

In 2019, Sandor Nemethy led the acquisition process that moved the spacecraft operations team and several satellites from EchoStar to Dish.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkNarrative GeneralFeb 2, 2021Astroscale U.S. Appoints Sandor Nemethy as Director, GEO Spacecraft Systems

Two cables supporting an instrument platform suspended over the Arecibo dish snapped, one in August and the other on 2020-11-06.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkNarrative GeneralDec 1, 2020NASA weighing options for future planetary radar capabilities after Arecibo

Arecibo remained the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope until China completed the Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in 2016.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkNarrative GeneralAug 12, 2020Arecibo radio observatory damaged

A cable used to help support a platform above Arecibo’s main reflector dish snapped in the early morning hours of 2020-08-10.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkNarrative GeneralAug 12, 2020Arecibo radio observatory damaged

In addition to $9,700,000,000 in incentive payments, satellite operators stand to receive an estimated $3,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000 to cover costs for replacement satellites, reduced C-band gateways, signal filters, C-band dish replacements, and new signal compression technology.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkTechnical ProductFeb 27, 2020Telesat sides with SES against Intelsat’s request for more C-band money

China established an 18-meter-diameter dish in Swakopmund, Namibia to develop deep space tracking infrastructure.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkNarrative GeneralNov 20, 2019China quietly used NASA’s Jupiter probe to test its deep space network

The U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust division approved the Sprint–T-Mobile merger conditional on divesting some prepaid mobile business to Dish Network.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkTechnical ProductSep 16, 2019Satellite C-band is worth billions, but how many?

EchoStar Corp. agreed on 2019-05-20 to sell its broadcast satellite services business to Dish Networks for $800,000,000.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkTechnical ProductMay 20, 2019EchoStar selling broadcast business, including nine satellites, to Dish for $800 million

EchoStar completed a share exchange agreement with Dish in early 2017 in which EchoStar traded its EchoStar Technologies business for all of Dish’s Hughes Retail Preferred Tracking Stock.

Mentioned as: DishTechnical ProductMay 20, 2019EchoStar selling broadcast business, including nine satellites, to Dish for $800 million

Dish will acquire licensing rights to the 61.5 degrees orbital slot where EchoStar-16 operates through the transaction.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkNarrative PlanMay 20, 2019EchoStar selling broadcast business, including nine satellites, to Dish for $800 million

Swedish Space Corporation operates ground stations at 10 sites around the world, each site equipped with multiple dish antennas.

Mentioned as: Dish NetworkOrg RelationshipMay 8, 2019Lockheed Martin mulls electronically steered antennas for Verge ground station expansion
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