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With the completion of dish assembly, the new DSS 35 antenna under construction at Australia's Tidbinbilla Deep Space Communications Complex is ready for a delicate bit of manoeuvring: from its current position on the ground, onto its pedestal. As the image below from the Complex's Webcam shows, getting the 34-metre dish from …

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  1. Gray Ham Bronze badge
    Happy

    Hmm

    May 10? That's Friday. Are you thinking what I'm thinking B1?

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    1. Martin Budden Silver badge
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      Re: Hmm

      I think I am B2!

      I might nip over to have a look... do you think the public are allowed in as usual, or will they be closing the complex for the lift?

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  2. mike 32
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    1/20 billionths?

    So....50 trillionths of a watt?

    Can't be the pedant, as I'm too lazy to work out the SI prefix.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    50 picowatts

    Or about -73 dBm. Of course, since we don't know the bandwidth of the signal in question, we cannot compute the noise floor.

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  4. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Holmes

    Nice, but...

    "Planned, approved and budgeted before America decided to threaten to blow its economic brains out via the fiscal sequester process"

    I dunno.... that's like saying a foaming junkie spasming in the hall decided to kill himself by refusing that one last little pill.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
    Devil

    Steal the amplifiers.....

    Make a brilliant crystal clear stereo.

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  6. Chris Evans

    Strops in place ready for tomorrow!

    As title

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