SETI public: Russia to build radio observatory in Uzbekistan

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Russia to build radio astronomical observatory in Uzbekistan
15.09.2003

By Vilor Niyazmatov
TASHKENT, September 15 (Itar-Tass) - Russian specialists will build in Uzbekistan one of the world's largest radio astronomical observatories.
The main designer and financier of the project, which will be sited at Sufa tableland, is the Russian Academy of Sciences/
The chief of the project on the Uzbek side is Shukhrat Egamberdyev, scientific secretary of Uzbekistan's Academy of Sciences and director of the Centre of Space Research.
He told Itar-Tass on Monday that the observatory would have an international status, and the construction of it could be called Russia's investment in science of Uzbekistan, a Central Asian republic.
The Russian leader of the project, Nikolai Artyomenko of the Astronomical Centre of the Physical Institute, said a key faculty of the future observatory would be a 70-meter radio telescope RT-70.
The telescope's main working mode will be in a millimetre range, although the tool will be also able to operate in a wave range from 6 centimetres to 0.8 millimetres.
Some 1,800 panels of the Russian-made telescope have been already transported to Sufa tableland.
A 50-metre elevator tower will be erected for service and maintenance of the future telescope.

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