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IEEE Spectrum Article on Discovery Dish

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Electrical engineering magazine IEEE Spectrum has recently posted an article about our Discovery Dish product, which was successfully crowd-funded on CrowdSupply and delivered to initial backers early this year. Discovery Dish is a 70-cm aluminum satellite dish with an active filtered feed. It is designed for receiving real-time weather data from GOES HRIT, GK-2A LRIT, FengYun LRIT, NOAA HRPT, Metop HRPT, Meteor M2 HRPT, and other weather satellites that operate around 1.69 GHz. There are also feeds for Inmarsat satellites, Hydroden Line observation, and S-band satellites.

In the article, Stephen Cass introduces the Discovery Dish, highlighting its practical uses and the convenience of disassembling it for easy packing in a suitcase during travel. He also shares his experience using the Discovery Dish to successfully receive images from the GOES-East satellite from the rooftop of his New York City apartment.

Finally, he mentions how he tested the hydrogen line feed as well, successfully seeing a hydrogen line peak when pointing at the galaxy.

Image from the IEEE Spectrum Article on Discovery Dish
Image from the IEEE Spectrum Article on Discovery Dish

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