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Why are modern satellite ground station and deep space communications dishes with secondary mirrors almost always Cassegrain?
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The main benefits of the Cassegrain design for an antenna are lower loss, higher aperture efficiency, and more convenient location of the feed horn / low noise amplifier.
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