Antennas
The hardware, and why size matters.
Why size matters
Bigger dish, more signal, longer lock. The network mixes massive steerable dishes with fields of phased-array panels, each doing a different job.
The hardware
dishes 11m steerable, for deep and GEO arrays phased panels, for LEO bursts yagis cheap, for education and backup radomes the domes you see by the coast
Beautiful, honestly
A tracking dish is the most honest machine we know: it just points at the thing it's listening to, and follows.