Evpatoria RT-70

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Evpatoria RT-70 is a large, 70-meter radio telescope and radar facility in Evpatoria, Crimea, used for deep space communication and planetary radar observations.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf deep space communication antenna
planetary radar facility
radio telescope
associatedWith Soviet space program NERFINISHED
post-Soviet space activities
comparableTo Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex antennas NERFINISHED
RT-70 Galenki NERFINISHED
RT-70 Suffa NERFINISHED
constructionPeriod Soviet era
country Russia (de facto control) NERFINISHED
Ukraine (internationally recognized) NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Evpatoria 70-metre antenna NERFINISHED
Evpatoria planetary radar antenna NERFINISHED
hasAntennaType fully steerable parabolic dish
hasApertureDiameter 70 metres
hasCapability high-power radio transmission
planetary radar ranging
reception of weak deep-space signals
hasDishMount alt-azimuth mount
hasFrequencyBand centimetre wavelengths
hasHeritage Cold War scientific infrastructure
hasMirrorDiameter 70 metres
hasStructureType ground-based radio antenna
hasUseStatus operational (status may vary over time)
locatedIn Crimea
Evpatoria NERFINISHED
Russia (de facto control) NERFINISHED
Ukraine (internationally recognized) NERFINISHED
locatedNear Black Sea NERFINISHED
operatedBy National Space Agency of Ukraine (historically) NERFINISHED
Russian space and defense organizations (post-2014 de facto)
Yevpatoria Center for Deep Space Communications NERFINISHED
partOf Center for Deep Space Communications, Evpatoria NERFINISHED
Evpatoria Planetary Radar NERFINISHED
former Soviet deep space network
usedFor SETI experiments
deep space communication
interplanetary communication
planetary radar observations
radar astronomy
radio astronomy
spacecraft tracking
transmission of interstellar messages
usedIn experiments in interstellar radio messaging
radar observations of near-Earth asteroids
radar observations of planets

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