China's two new radio telescopes put into use to support deep space exploration
SHANGHAI -- Two radio telescopes with 40-meter-diameter antennas, one located in Northeast and the other in Southwest China, were put into use on Friday. The two telescopes were built by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Changbai Mountain area in Northeast China's Jilin province and in Shigatse in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region respectively. Following the deployment of the two new telescopes, the Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry network in China now includes one control center in Shanghai and six stations in Shanghai, Urumqi, Kunming, Changbai Mountain and Shigatse, according to SHAO. With the two new telescopes, the longest baseline of China's VLBI network, or the "effective aperture of the virtual telescope" has been extended from approximately 3,200 kilometers to about 3,800 kilometers, said Shen Zhiqiang, head of SHAO. Ye Shuhua, an academician of CAS, said the two new telescopes will play an important role in future lunar exploration, as well as deep space missions to explore asteroids, Mars, Jupiter and other celestial bodies.
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