Stanford Dish (Stanford Radio Telescope)
Radio telescope in California
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The Stanford Dish, known locally as the Dish, is a steerable radio antenna in the Stanford, California foothills. "The Dish" is also used locally to refer to the surrounding hiking area.
The 150-foot-diameter (46 m) Dish was built in 1961 by the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International). The cost to construct the antenna was $4.5 million, funded by the United States Air Force. In the 1960s, the Dish was used to provide information on Soviet radar installations by detecting radio signals bounced off the moon.
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