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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s new Satellite Operations Control Center lies partially buried in a Maryland landscape even as its rooftop dish antennas scan the skies to monitor and control the nation’s weather satellites. Design challenges for this iconic structure included the structural systems needed to support the array of rotating antennas as well as the differing visions of the government agencies that would own and occupy the facility.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s new Satellite Operations Control Center lies partially buried in a Maryland landscape even as its rooftop dish antennas scan the skies to monitor and control the nation’s weather satellites. Design challenges for this iconic structure included the structural systems needed to support the array of rotating antennas as well as the differing visions of the government agencies that would own and occupy the facility.
Sky Watcher
Malits, Frank S. (author)
Civil Engineering Magazine Archive ; 77 ; 42-49
2016-01-01
82007-01-01 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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