Suffa RT-70 radio telescope
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| Location(s) | Jizzakh Region, Zomin District, Uzbekistan |
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| Coordinates | 39°37′N 68°27′E / 39.62°N 68.45°E |
| Altitude | 2,324 m (7,625 ft) |
| Telescope style | RT-70 radio telescope White elephant  |
| Diameter | 70 m (229 ft 8 in) |
| Website | asc-lebedev |
  Location of Suffa RT-70 radio telescope | |
The Suffa RT-70 radio telescope (Russian: Суффа РТ-70) is an RT-70 radio telescope at the Suffa Radio Observatory on the Suffa plateau in Uzbekistan.
History
[edit]Construction began in the late 1980s but was put on hold when the Soviet Union fell and the Uzbekistani government abandoned the project. As of 2008[update], the Russian government had resumed the construction of the site,[1] with an updated emphasis on millimeter-wave band observations at 100–300 GHz. As of 2014[update], construction was reported to be 50% complete.[2] However any construction has stopped and the construction site has been abandoned.
With its 70m antenna diameter, this third unit of the RT-70 telescope was designed to be one of three similar radio telescopes.
Two completed RT-70 telescopes are:
- Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope – at the Center for Deep Space Communications, Yevpatoria, Crimea
- Galenki RT-70 radio telescope – at the Ussuriysk Astrophysical Observatory, Russia
References
[edit]- ^ 19th International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology, Groningen, 28-30 April 2008 New Challenge for 0.1 - 0.3 THz Technology: Development of Apparatus for Radio Telescope RT-70, V. Vdovin, I. Zinchenko1, Yu. Artemenko, V. Dubrovich, A. Baryshev
- ^ "Construction of Radio Telescope that Picks Up Extraterrestrial Signals May be Completed in Uzbekistan".
