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More than half a century after a tracking station in the ACT’s Namadgi National Park broadcast the grainy footage of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, a new telescope will allow Canberra to play another starring role in space communications.
The telescope is part of the Australian National University’s (ANU) new Quantum Optical Ground Station at Mount Stromlo Observatory, and uses adaptive optics and lasers — rather than the traditional radio waves — to send and receive data from space.
Fittingly, two decades after the Mount Stromlo Observatory was destroyed in the 2003 Canberra bushfires, the telescope will also have applications in bushfire management.
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