Zoom in on that photo... There are a few interesting things. The antenna seems to be made of a bunch of circular disks, each with a grid of transmitting elem

Zoom in on that photo... There are a few interesting things. The antenna seems to be made of a bunch of circular disks, each with a grid of transmitting elements on. To me, that looks like a silicon wafer. That is the only reason I can think of to make that element circular. If so, that many wafers makes this satellite fantastically expensive...