CSIRO engineers design 19-beam receiver of world’s largest single dish telescope

[Daniel]

Australia will be part of China's aim to build the world's largest single dish telescope.
CSIRO engineers are the designers of the Five-hundred meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope's (FAST) 19-beam receiver.

http://www.ibtimes.com.au/csiro-engineers-design-19-beam-receiver-worlds-largest-single-dish-telescope-being-built-china

[Sean]

Good that we still design and build things in Australia. 


Here's another article that has more recent photos of the telescope:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/csiro-technology-to-be-at-the-heart-of-the-worlds-largest-radio-telescope-in-china-20160505-gomt90.html


Also, just to give a rough idea of what a multibeam receiver is, here's a photo of the Parkes 13 beam multibeam receiver from the 1990's:

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/multibeam/

[Sean]

Here's a BBC article on Chinese science projects, among other things it includes a section on the FAST telescope with a video.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-0192822d-14f1-432b-bd25-92eab6466362