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Cleaner tied to a helium balloon to maintain radio telescope

(People's Daily App) 10:12, February 24, 2023

It has been more than three years since the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) was put into operation.

To maintain it, staff use a helium balloon. Here's how they do it in Pingtang, Guizhou Province:

(Produced by Wu Bozheng and Dong Feng)

(Web editor: Wu Chaolan, Liang Jun)

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