Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) FAST Fr.: FAST The 500 m diameter → radio telescope which is the largest → single-dish antenna in the world. It is an Arecibo type telescope nestled within a natural basin in China's remote and mountainous Dawodang, Kedu Town, in southeastern China's Guizhou Province. The → reflector consists of 4,450 triangular panels, each with a side length of 11 m. More than 2,000 → actuators are used, according to the feedback from the measuring system, to deform the whole reflector surface and directly correct for → spherical aberration. Several detectors are used to cover a frequency range of 70 MHz to 3 GHz. → five; → hundred; → meter; → aperture; → spherical; → radio; → telescope. |
radio telescope râdio-teleskop (#), teleskop-e râdioyi (#) Fr.: radio télescope A telescope whose receiver is sensitive to → radio waves. |