Picking up the Frequency
Bell Telephone Laboratories built the Horn reflector antenna in Holmdel, New Jersey to pick up signals from NASA’s ECHO I communication satellites in 1959.
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Bell Telephone Laboratories built the Horn reflector antenna in Holmdel, New Jersey to pick up signals from NASA’s ECHO I communication satellites in 1959.