South Africa's national radio astronomy facility, built on a former satellite tracking station near Johannesburg and home since 1975 to a 26-meter radio telescope, the only major single-dish radio telescope on the African continent for decades. It anchors South Africa's role in African and international Very Long Baseline Interferometry networks.
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Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, Wikipedia - lead section, observing band (radio)
The Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) is a radio astronomy observatory, located in a natural bowl of hills at Hartebeesthoek just south of the Magaliesberg mountain range, and about 50 km west of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
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was built in 1961 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
In Group: Radio and Millimetre Interferometer Arrays, Lead sentence
HartRAO was the only major radio astronomy observatory in Africa until the construction of the KAT-7 test bed for the future MeerKAT array in the Meerkat National Park.
Operated By: National Research Foundation of South Africa, Article text: operator
It is a National Research Facility run by South Africa's National Research Foundation.
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