World's largest radio telescope in Guizhou, China

[Jlaw]

China will start to lead in astrology now and know things more than what western dont know

textbook publishers are licking their chops to make revised version soon

 

[Dungeness]

I have merged a number of related threads and removed all the junk posts.

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'FAST' telescope starts operation in Guizhou
2016-09-25 11:38 chinadaily.com.cn Editor:Feng Shuang

Editor's note: The world's largest single-aperture spherical telescope, "FAST", starts operation in a karst valley in Pingtang county, Guizhou province, on Sunday. The size of 30 football fields, the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope dwarfs Puerto Rico's 300-meter Arecibo Observatory. Construction began in March 2011 at a cost of 1.2 billion yuan ($179 million).


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This scene shows the night view of the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in Pingtang county, Guizhou province, June 27, 2016. (Photo/Xinhua)


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This scene taken from FAST's viewing platform shows the panorama of the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in Pingtang county, Guizhou province, Sept 24, 2016. (Photo/Xinhua)


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Visitors pose for photo on the viewing platform of "FAST", the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, in Pingtang county, Guizhou province, Sept 24, 2016. (Photo/Xinhua)


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A model of the solar system is displayed at "FAST", China's Single-Aperture Spherical telescope, in Pingtang county, Guizhou province, Sept 24, 2016. (Photo/Xinhua)


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This scene shows the panorama of the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in Pingtang county, Guizhou province, Sept 24, 2016. (Photo/Xinhua)


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The feed cabin is installed on "FAST", the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, in Pingtang county, Guizhou province, Sept 7, 2016. (Photo/Xinhua)


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China's single-aperture spherical telescope "FAST", in Pingtang county, Guizhou province, Sept 24, 2016. (Photo/Xinhua)


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This scene shows the panorama of the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in Pingtang county, Guizhou province, Sept 7, 2016. (Photo/Xinhua)

Just as China said it would do, another Chinese mega engineering project!

 

[Beast]

textbook publishers are licking their chops to make revised version soon

Those savy data will publish in Chinese and not english, the west need to pay money and get the translator to follow the Chinese.

 

[Dungeness]

World's Largest Radio Telescope FAST Detects Pulsar Signal 1,351 Light-Years Away

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/1...ects-pulsar-signal-1-351-light-years-away.htm

 

[AndrewJin]

Apart from its scientific significance, it will have

i'm watching it now. Wow, she fixed the problem so fast. These people are so young and talented.

http://www.fashlife.net/article/03/76835.html
Now, even 1990s born can be senior engineers in our frontier research teams.
http://news.ifeng.com/a/20160918/49984341_0.shtml
From @Chinese Bamboo 's uni.

Young!

What an innovative design!

 

[GS Zhou]

Seven scientific targets of the FAST project. Even the smallest target (Target No.7) makes me thrilled: expand China's deep space communication range till the edge of the Solar System.

Does it mean we've completed the first pre-condition of a deep-space craft?

科学目标：
1、FAST有能力将中性氢观测延伸至宇宙边缘，重现宇宙早期图像。
2、能用一年时间发现数千颗脉冲星，建立 脉冲星计时阵，参与未来脉冲星自主导航和引力波探测。
3、主导国际甚长基线干涉测量网，获得天体 超精细结构。
4、进行高分辨率微波巡视，检测微弱空间信号。
5、参与地外文明搜寻。
6、参与子午链工程，提高非相干散射雷达双机系统性能。
7、将深空通讯能力延伸至太阳系外缘行星，将卫星数据接收能力提高100倍。

 

[ahojunk]

Chinese vice premier attends FAST launch ceremony in Guizhou
Source: Xinhua | 2016-09-26 07:17:55 | Editor: Mengjie

Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong (3rd L) attends the launch ceremony of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in Pingtang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Sept. 25, 2016. The FAST, the world's largest radio telescope, measuring 500 meters in diameter, was officially put into use on Sunday. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong reads a congratulatory letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping at the launch ceremony of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in Pingtang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Sept. 25, 2016. The FAST, the world's largest radio telescope, measuring 500 meters in diameter, was officially put into use on Sunday. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

 

[Jlaw]

Apart from its scientific significance, it will have

http://www.fashlife.net/article/03/76835.html
Now, even 1990s born can be senior engineers in our frontier research teams.
http://news.ifeng.com/a/20160918/49984341_0.shtml
From @Chinese Bamboo 's uni.

Young!
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What an innovative design!

that's meritocracy. We don't have this in west. Everything is based on your race, years of service, and your *** kissing skills.

World's Largest Radio Telescope FAST Detects Pulsar Signal 1,351 Light-Years Away

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/1...ects-pulsar-signal-1-351-light-years-away.htm

wow, only operational one day and they found this pulsar.

 

[JSCh]

Daring Chinese telescope is poised to transform astronomy
Construction of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is complete, but debugging has only just begun.

• David Cyranoski
• 26 September 2016
  

Set in a remote natural depression in the mountainous region of Guizhou, China, the world’s largest single-dish telescope is on the brink of sparking a new era in radio astronomy. But scientists also worry about the daringly complex structure of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST).

“It will be the instrument of choice for any exotic object in its range,” says Matthew Bailes, an astrophysicist at the Swinburne University of Technology in Hawthorn, Australia. But “its design is so radical, we’re all wondering if it will work.”

On 25 September, FAST’s construction was declared officially complete. Some 200 scientists from around the world attended an inauguration ceremony and got their first look at FAST’s preliminary data, which will be used to debug the telescope. That process could take three years or more, says Peng Bo, an astronomer at the National Astronomical Observatories in Beijing and the project’s deputy manager.

Then teams from around the world will be able to bid for time to use the telescope, FAST chief scientist Nan Rendong told Nature.


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Daring Chinese telescope is poised to transform astronomy : Nature News & Comment​

 

[rcrmj]

dont answer the call```or we will be extinct

 

[JSCh]

World’s largest radio telescope will search for dark matter, listen for aliens

By Dennis Normile | Sep. 26, 2016 , 3:00 PM

DAWODANG, CHINA—In a stunning landscape of jagged limestone hills in southwestern China, engineers are putting the finishing touches on a grand astronomy facility: a half-kilometer-wide dish nestled in a natural depression that will gather radio signals from the cosmos. The world’s largest radio telescope will catalog pulsars; probe gravitational waves, dark matter, and fast radio bursts; and listen for transmissions from alien civilizations.

Yet the architect of the tour de force is blasé about what his telescope might capture. “I’m really not very interested in science, I’m sorry to say,” says Nan Rendong, chief scientist and chief engineer of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) here. Colleagues insist he is joking, but there is no question that what has consumed 2 decades of his life— and is now wowing other astronomers—is engineering. “As a civil engineering feat, FAST is obviously amazing,” says Fred Lo, former director of the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia.

It is not just FAST’s sheer size—it has more than twice the collecting area of the runner-up, the 305-meter dish in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. FAST is also breaking new ground in radio astronomy with a design that pulls a section of the spherical dish into a gradually moving paraboloid to aim at and track cosmic objects as Earth rotates, bringing the benefits of a tilting, turning antenna to a fixed dish. This innovation “is absolutely unique, nobody has ever done this before,” says Dick Manchester, a radio astronomer at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Sydney.



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World’s largest radio telescope will search for dark matter, listen for aliens | Science | AAAS​

 

[AndrewJin]

Giant telescope provides path to fun, profit

Potential revenues seen in tourism: Visitors welcome, but not cellphones

As the world's largest single-aperture radio telescope for scanning the universe - China's FAST - made its debut on Sunday, the local government rolled out its own grand vision for high-end tourism. It takes the form of tourism, with ticket prices as high as 668 yuan ($100).

Perhaps the better news is that, starting on Monday, a trial run at the scenic spot will begin at a discounted price of 368 yuan per person, almost 50 percent off, according to the tourism bureau of Pingtang county, Guizhou province, where the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope sits. As many as 2,000 people can visit the site each day.

The ticket is more like an all-day pass that gives tourists access to most spots related to the giant telescope, including a 2,700-square-meter visitor's stand overlooking the installation, which is the size of 30 soccer fields. There's also an astronomy-themed museum and a cultural park. The FAST itself is not open to the public. Shuttles within the visitors' zone are free.

Going into the zone gives visitors a day of relief from the ball and chain of the internet in an era where everybody is connected to everybody by mobile phone, like it or not. The gigantic yet delicate radio telescope tolerates zero disturbance from cellular services, according to Peng Bo, deputy manager of the FAST project. Hence the governor of Guizhou signed an executive order in 2013 forbidding the use of any electronic devices within 5 kilometers of the telescope.

Visitors are required to deposit all digital devices, including cellphones and digital cameras, in lockers before going into the signal-free zone.

Conventional film cameras are allowed, for those who want to take pictures. And if a person really needs to make a phone call, several free landlines can be found at the visitors' stand and tourist center.

The hotpot-shaped FAST and the high-altitude natural basin in which it rests have jointly "created a rare scenic spot that perfectly combines modern technology and geology, which is an unparalleled tourism resource that will have a significant impact on the development of Guizhou's tourism industry", the Pingtang tourism bureau said on its official website.

The United States' 305-meter Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico attracts about 130,000 tourists every year, bringing in more than $50 million annually, a report in The Paper said.

Li Yongzhong, 61, a retired middle school teacher, said: "I think the telescope will be beneficial to all Chinese and even people from all over the world. Here we get our income mainly from agriculture, and there are almost no other industries. I think it will bring a lot of tourists from other regions of the county and even from foreign countries that will increase people's income."

Yang Shenghu, 31, a farmer, said: "There have been big changes in transportation conditions here. It's quite something and brings prestige in talking with outsiders. I expect to find a job in town instead of leaving my hometown."

Hou Liqiang contributed to this story.

 

[AndrewJin]

STOP FLOODING TO FAST!

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

China will start to lead in astrology now and know things more than what western dont know

Umm... No.

Chinese project firstly is an international collaboration. Many parts of this telescope have been built by outsiders including the radar receiver that has been built by Australia.

Also, one telescope won't suddenly change the leadership of Americans and Europeans. They have all sorts of telescopes, and trained man power.

China will start to lead in astrology now and know things more than what western dont know

Finally, it is astronomy, not astrology.

that's meritocracy. We don't have this in west. Everything is based on your race, years of service, and your *** kissing skills.

Why don't you return to meritocratic China than? Perhaps has something to do with the fact that western per capita incomes are 7-8 times that in China?

I would like China to be meritocratic, but it ain't meritocratic now. That is the simple fact.

And launching one telescope doesn't change it. NASA would soon be launching the James Webb Telescope, to replace Hubble Telescope. Both Hubble and James Webb Telescope would have a greater scientific impact than FAST.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

dont answer the call```or we will be extinct

Eliminate human tyranny!
The commander wills it!