TEHRAN, Feb 26 - The first ever home-made radio telescope to serve the country's physicians, academicians and university students unveiled today, Head of Iran's Space Research Center Omid Shokofa said.
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TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Speaking in the unveiling ceremony of the product, he added that rendering educational services to people from all walks of life was the root cause of the idea to produce such a facility needed by the people in the country.
Fortunately, the Iranian officials' support efforts to develop indigenized and sophisticated technological know-how to attain and promote national development, he said, IRNA reported.
A radio telescope is a specialized antenna and receiver used to receive radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky in radio astronomy.
Source: Iran Press