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benjojo posted 05 May 2026 16:17 +0000

Forgot to post this last month, but there is a abandoned huge 32m satellite dish sitting in the Azores, with nature slowly reclaiming it with weeds and moss (as is everything in the Azores)

You can see a very similar (likely the same model) still being used in Pakistan for PTCL here on google maps

various photos of a very large satellite dish (at least thirty meters in diameter) that is abandoned and is slowly growing a lot of moss and mode as if it has been reclaimed by nature. various photos of a very large satellite dish (at least thirty meters in diameter) that is abandoned and is slowly growing a lot of moss and mode as if it has been reclaimed by nature. various photos of a very large satellite dish (at least thirty meters in diameter) that is abandoned and is slowly growing a lot of moss and mode as if it has been reclaimed by nature. various photos of a very large satellite dish (at least thirty meters in diameter) that is abandoned and is slowly growing a lot of moss and mode as if it has been reclaimed by nature.

anticomposite@wikis... replied 05 May 2026 16:40 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Mcx6213j9429QtFbYt

@benjojo https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03437 identifies it as a 32m Intelsat Standard-A satellite communications dish, which would have been used for telephone, TV, and broadcast radio connections. They were obsoleted in the mid 80s with better undersea cables and satellites that didn't require dishes that big. Some have been repurposed for radio astronomy, but this one was just mothballed.