A radio telescope in rural West Virginia operated by the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory, completed in 2000 with a fully steerable, unblocked 100-by-110-meter dish that makes it the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world. It sits within the National Radio Quiet Zone, a region where radio transmissions are restricted to protect its sensitive observations.
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Project Ozma in 1960 used the Green Bank site for an early radio SETI search
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Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in Green Bank, West Virginia, US is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, surpassing the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope in Germany.
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The telescope began regular science operations in 2001
In Group: Single-Dish Radio and Millimetre Telescopes, Lead sentence
Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in Green Bank, West Virginia, US is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, surpassing the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope in Germany.
Operated By: Green Bank Observatory, Article text: operator
Since October 1, 2016, the telescope has been operated by the independent Green Bank Observatory.
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