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Star Search: Electric Actuators Play a Starring Role in Helping the Largest, Fully Steerable Radiotelescope See More of the Universe

From Nook Industries, Inc.

Sometime in the coming months, astronomer Mark McKinnon will point the newly operational Green Bank Telescope at a starry sky. He'll be searching for distant celestial objects that up until now have eluded the reach of more conventional stargazing equipment.
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