These aren't satellite dishes, they are rain water catchers.
Wire mesh water catchers, that's makes about as much sense as your famous non-conductive plastic antenna's and rf filters.
Sorry Rodney, you are losing the plot.
If you take the satellite dish aiming data, and triagulate the transmitter position, you will find the satellites are in geostationary orbit over the equator.
As for balloons, the best duration so far for a stratellite is a few months, and it came down in outback Australia, after drifing around Antarctica from a New Zealand Launch.