radome

protective enclosure

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radio telescopes

  • Lovell Telescope
    In radio telescope: Principles of operation

    …placed in protective enclosures called radomes that can nearly eliminate the effect of both wind loading and temperature differences throughout the structure. Special materials that exhibit very low absorption and reflection of radio waves have been developed for such structures, but the cost of enclosing a large antenna in a…

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