China’s 70-meter-wide steerable reflector antenna has completed its operational checks and is ready to receive signals from the country’s Tianwen-1 mission, which is expected to enter the orbit of Mars next week. The construction of the massive radio telescope to service the maiden voyage of China’s mission to Mars began in 2018 in the country’s […]
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China readies Asia’s largest reflector antenna to receive data from its first Mars mission
February 5th, 2021 Awake Goy