TOKYO: Beijing is ramping up its space program, with the construction of the world’s largest radio telescope used to pick up sounds from outer space.
The dish, located deep in the mountains of southwest China’s Guizhou Province, will be the first of its kind for China, and will allow its military-run space program to gather its own data.
Wu Xiangping, director-general of the Chinese Astronomical Society, told Xinhua, the official state news service, that for years Chinese scientists have worked on “second-hand” data collected by other space programs, which prevented China from any major breakthroughs.
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