Year-ender: China's sci-tech achievements in 2023 (5)

The Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope, a solar telescope array in southwest China, passed key testing on September 27, 2023, marking the official completion of the world's largest synthesis aperture radio telescope.

Besides monitoring solar activities, the telescope array will also conduct joint observations with other major national scientific and technological infrastructure, including the FAST telescope (China Sky Eye) in Guizhou Province, China's deep-space observation radar facility (China Compound Eye) in Chongqing Municipality, and Sanya Incoherent Scatter Radar in Hainan Province.