CSIRO engineers building 19-beam receiver for 500m FAST radiotelescope China

[gary]

In an article in today's Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/csiro-technology-to-be-at-the-heart-of-the-worlds-largest-radio-telescope-in-china-20160505-gomt90.html), Marcus Strom writes that
CSIRO engineers at Marsfield in Sydney are designing and building a
19-beam receiver that will be at the heart of the Five-hundred
metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, in China.

FAST will be the world's largest single dish radiotelescope and is due to
be commissioned this year.

Article here -
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/csiro-technology-to-be-at-the-heart-of-the-worlds-largest-radio-telescope-in-china-20160505-gomt90.html

[janoskiss]

CSIRO advancing Chinese science. Meanwhile Parkes and many other Australian research facilities are facing closure for lack of funding --- not to mention the severe cutbacks to staff and the resulting massive brain drain in recent years. :(

[skysurfer]

CSIRO = Chinese Science Innovative Research Organization.