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Droop snoot, dish, and open nose

The seven-foot steerable antenna behind the famous bulbous nose — how ARIA acquired the target.

Photographs 6Album nose-and-dish

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ARIA nose open for maintenance, parabolic dish and feed visible. ARIA archive · Randy L. Losey

ARIA droop-snoot nose detail. ARIA archive · Randy L. Losey

ARIA nose and forward fuselage. ARIA archive · Randy L. Losey

ARIA antenna / nose archive photograph. ARIA archive · Randy L. Losey

Radome removed on 81-0893 — dish exposed. ARIA archive · Randy L. Losey

ARIA profile showing the droop snoot. ARIA archive · Randy L. Losey

Captions are descriptive working labels from filenames and known ARIA context — not a claim that every frame has been formally identified. Corrections and credit upgrades welcome at [email protected].

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