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Ghana converts obsolete telecomms dish into radio telescope - physicsworld.com "Scientists in Ghana have successfully converted

Ghana converts obsolete telecomms dish into radio telescope - physicsworld.com

"Scientists in Ghana have successfully converted a communications antenna into a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio telescope. The country is the first partner of the African VLBI Network (AVN) to complete a full refurbishment. The 32 m-diameter dish is located in the Ghana Intelsat Satellite Earth Station at Kutunse and has passed a series of detection tests."

Source: physicsworld.com

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