03 February 2021
Asia’s largest single-aperture fully steerable antenna is ready to go into service to communicate with the Tianwen 1 Mars mission deployed by China. The antenna in Tianjin city in northern China has a diameter of 70 m. It covers some 4,560 m2, an area about the size of 10 basketball courts. Chinese officials said on 3 February 2021, that the dish will help collect data from the Tianwen 1 Mars probe when it enters orbit around the red planet on 10 February.
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