gary
18-06-2011, 03:34 PM
China has begun construction of the Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical
Radio Telescope (FAST) in Guizhou province (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guizhou), southern China.
Like the 305m Arecibo telescope, FAST is located in a karst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karst) depression.
Total earthwork is estimated to be one million cubic meters and the scope is expected
to be completed by 2016.
Light reading popular press articles here -
http://www.gizmag.com/five-hundred-meter-aperture-spherical-radio-telescope/18930/
http://www.geekosystem.com/china-radio-telescope/
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-06/inside-fast-soon-be-worlds-biggest-and-baddest-radio-telescope
Interesting 36 page paper in English by authors from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and JPL
which details the giant telescope project here -
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1105/1105.3794.pdf
Radio Telescope (FAST) in Guizhou province (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guizhou), southern China.
Like the 305m Arecibo telescope, FAST is located in a karst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karst) depression.
Total earthwork is estimated to be one million cubic meters and the scope is expected
to be completed by 2016.
Light reading popular press articles here -
http://www.gizmag.com/five-hundred-meter-aperture-spherical-radio-telescope/18930/
http://www.geekosystem.com/china-radio-telescope/
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-06/inside-fast-soon-be-worlds-biggest-and-baddest-radio-telescope
Interesting 36 page paper in English by authors from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and JPL
which details the giant telescope project here -
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1105/1105.3794.pdf