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Sep. 22, 1959 - Gigantic Radio-Telescope Being Constructed For U.S. Navy: The World's Largest Radio Telescope is under construction for the U.S. Navy Near Sugar Grove, West Virginia. After Scheduled completion in 1962, The 20, 000 - Ton Facility, to be known officially as Naval Radio Research Station, will give the United States the world's most powerful ear on the Universe. It will enable navy scientists to tune in on radio signals emitted by Astral Bodies 19 times the distance probed by the200-inch optical telescope at Mount Palomar, California. The Instrument's Aluminum-Mesh reflector dish will have a 600-foot diameter, Twice the Length of foot field, and an area exceeding seven acres/Foundations For the World's Largest Radio Telescope are Laid in the Mountains of West Virginia near sugar Grove. To be named the U.S. Naval Radio Research Station, It is scheduled for completion in 1962, Ten Thousands Yards of Reinforced concrete are being poured to make the Base for the 20, 000-Ton, 600-Foot in Diameter Telescope. The Concrete Work is being done by the firm of baker and coombs of morgantown, West Girginia. The Instrument at the upper-right is a 60-Foot radio telescope to be used by the Naval research laboratory for seeking out sources of electrical noise which interfere with radio wave reception in Large sensitive telescopes. Construction of the Gigantic Radio Telescope is under the direction of the Navy's Bureau of yards and dock

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