A Chinese radio telescope built into a natural karst depression in Guizhou province, completed in 2016 with a 500-meter dish that makes it the largest filled-aperture radio telescope in the world, surpassing the former record held by Arecibo. It has been used to discover large numbers of new pulsars and to search for fast radio bursts and technosignatures.
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LocationJinke Village, Kedu, Pingtang County, Guizhou, China 1 Operating PrincipleActive surface of 4,500 metal panels forming a moving parabola in real time, with a cable-suspended feed cabin steered by winches 1 Classification
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1. Wikipedia: Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
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Jinke Village, Kedu, Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, PRC
Construction
the last panel was installed on the morning of 3 July 2016
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is a radio telescope
Design
It has a novel design, using an active surface made of 4,500 metal panels which form a moving parabola shape in real time.
In Group: Single-Dish Radio and Millimetre Telescopes, Lead sentence
"Sky's/Heaven's Eye"), is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang depression (大窝凼洼地), a natural basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou, southwestern China.
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