[1] It is operated by the Institute of Radio Astronomy and Space Research of Auckland University of Technology and was constructed in 2008.

[2][3][4] The 12m diameter antenna was designed and constructed by COBHAM Satcom.

It is mounted alt-azimuth and has slewing rates of 5 deg/s in azimuth and 1.25 deg/s in elevation, and acceleration of 1.3 deg/s/s.

In 2010 this dish was used for several very-long-baseline interferometry(VLBI) observations[5][6] in conjunction with the Australian Long Baseline Array.

[8] It is also co-located with a Land Information New Zealand and GNS Science 'PositioNZ' Global Navigation Satellite System[9] station, to assist in maintaining the International Terrestrial Reference Frame.