Pointed to the heavens, its giant white parabolic dish – mounted on a brick tower ... down a series of metal ladders to eventually emerge from a door at the centre of the control room.

The parabolic antenna comes as three metal petals plus some ancillary bits and pieces for holding the feed and mounting the dish on a support. Everything is held together with nuts and bolts ...

The SMAP AstroMesh dish comprises a circular carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) truss with a metal mesh stretched across it ... which gives the mesh its parabolic shape, stiffness and structural ...

Manufacturers can produce off-axis parabolic mirrors in several ways. One method involves using a rotating furnace to form the mirrors from a molten base material. A simpler way is to cut and shape ...

The improved design of the FOCUS centers on design-for-manufacturing improvements and encompasses all aspects of the FOCUS parabolic dish concentrator with particular emphasis on the parabolic ...