I'm going to play the 'My dad is better than your dad' card.
My dad was PM in charge of the Pioneer 5 program at Jodrell Bank - the program that basically bailed out Sir Bernard Lovell and kept Jodrell Bank alive.
Pic below is him with Princess Margaret at JB. We have that switch still, and the reciever that was at the focal point of the dish.
After this, he worked for COMSAT - one of the things they did was use their communications dishes to track Soviet, and US satellites with RADAR and