Beijing: Chinese scientists have completed construction of the main portion of the country's second largest radio telescope which will serve Beijing's ambitious moon-probe project scheduled next year.
The 45-metre-tall telescope weighing 400 tonnes and with an antenna diameter measuring 40 metres, is located in southwest China's Yunnan Province and will be fully operational by June.
The country's largest telescope is under construction in Beijing.
Along with two radio telescopes already set up in Shanghai and northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China now has four large radio telescopes which are 2,000 to 3,000 kilometres apart from each other.
The telescopes will form a comprehensive earth-based research and survey network that will be able to detect, track and retrieve data sent from China's first moon-orbiting satellite, director of Yunnan Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Li Yan said.
Located on top of the 2000-metre-tall Mountain Phoenix in an eastern suburb of Kunming, capital city of Yunnan Province, the newest radio telescope is "superbly well positioned", the scientist said.
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