USED TO TRACK THE LUNAR ROCKET.—The world’s biggest radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, which is being used to track the Soviet rocket aimed at the moon. This lensless telescope played a large part in Great Britain’s contribution to the International Geophysical Year. It weighs 2000 tons, and its rotating reflector bowl is 250 feet in diameter.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28999, 14 September 1959, Page 11
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57USED TO TRACK THE LUNAR ROCKET.—The world’s biggest radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, which is being used to track the Soviet rocket aimed at the moon. This lensless telescope played a large part in Great Britain’s contribution to the International Geophysical Year. It weighs 2000 tons, and its rotating reflector bowl is 250 feet in diameter. Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28999, 14 September 1959, Page 11
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