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Parkes Dish to play new role in moon exploration – Parkes Champion-Post
The Parkes Radio Telescope is poised for another 15 minutes of fame, half a century after the Australian telescope captured images of humanity’s first steps o……
The Parkes Radio Telescope is poised for another 15 minutes of fame, half a century after the Australian telescope captured images of humanity’s first steps on the moon.
Later this year the enormous Dish as it is more fondly known, celebrated in the iconic Aussie film, will track the delivery of lunar exploration gear and help get crucial scientific and engineering data back to earth.
The mission has been tentatively scheduled for October and will drop instruments near the moon’s largest valley,…
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