Captain Jack
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While on a recent trip to Russia cruising up the Volga to Moscow and doing my best to avoid anything football related, we stumbled upon this gem.
It's a 64m radio telescope in Kalyazin, a tiny village on the Volga, away from anywhere and sitting on flat terrain. We were given a short talk about it and then a demo. It's used for pretty much anything these days but Mars missions seemed like its most common use. Else it was used for finding pulsars and tracking space junk amongst other things.
The demo.
I couldn't stand far enough to get the whole dish into the view finder...
Now... what would it take to get a planning permission for one of those?
It's a 64m radio telescope in Kalyazin, a tiny village on the Volga, away from anywhere and sitting on flat terrain. We were given a short talk about it and then a demo. It's used for pretty much anything these days but Mars missions seemed like its most common use. Else it was used for finding pulsars and tracking space junk amongst other things.
The demo.
I couldn't stand far enough to get the whole dish into the view finder...
Now... what would it take to get a planning permission for one of those?
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