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Antenna Tests #2

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A lead STEREO engineer at APL tests Observatory A's high-gain antenna. Observatory "A" (the one that will be placed "ahead" of Earth in its orbit around the sun) is seen to the right.

After launch, high-gain antennas are used for downlinking data from, or uplinking commands to, a spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory