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FAST does 'eye exercises' to maintain top performance

chinadaily.com.cn| Updated: 2021-02-10 Print

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The 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope under construction. It opened in 2016 in Pingtang county Guizhou province. [Photo by Dai Chuanfu/For chinadaily.com.cn]

The 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope — known as FAST, the world's largest radio telescope in Pingtang county, Guizhou province — has been upgraded and maintained many times after making some great achievements.

The so-called China's sky eye has a 250,000-square-meter "retina". With more than 2,200 hydraulic actuators acting as neurons to precisely control the "retina", how do engineers keep it healthy?

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