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...biggest uncertainties before the war started was how the Patriot system would fare. The antimissile missile is guided by a sophisticated phased-array radar consisting of more than 5,000 radar antenna elements that can detect and track 100 targets at a time and follow any given one far more rapidly than the rotating cone of conventional radar. But the system had never been tested against a Scud...
...construction of a new antenna and transmitter in 1980 boosted the station's audience to a potential 2.6 million people, according to Music Director Douglas D. Wolk...
Television and radio news floods the airwaves; major events from across the globe pop instantly onto home screens; computers and fax machines relay information in a flash. But anyone who thinks the media boom has created a nation of news junkies needs to readjust his antenna. A sobering new study titled The Age of Indifference, released last week by the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press, reveals that young Americans are barely paying attention. The under-30 generation, it reports, "knows less, cares less and reads newspapers less" than any generation in the past five decades...
...first satellites were tiny, antenna-studded devices that often weighed little more than the men and women who built them. But big was better as the space age progressed. The largest satellites today tip the scales at 15 tons, cost hundreds of millions of dollars and are roughly the size of Mack trucks. They must be put into orbit by giant rockets or space shuttles...
...telescope would have a dish antenna approximately 200 feet wide, under preliminary design plans...