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The Sardinia Radio Telescope (Srt), inaugurated in september 2013, is the second largest, fully steerable single-dish radio telescope in the world (after the Green Bank Radiotelescope in West Virginia, USA) and the first in Europe.
The telescope, originated from a collaboration between National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Sardinia Autonomous Region, costs approximately 70 million of euros and it is located 40 kilometers from Cagliari, in the Pranu Sanguni (that in southern sardinian language means Bloody Plain, because according to a legend here the dragon was killed by Saint George and its blood dispersed on the land)
The Srt is designed to accommodate several instruments with a frequency coverage from 0.30 GHz to 100 GHz. In addition to the radio astronomy science applications, this instrument will be used for deep space communication missions in conjunction with the Italian Space Agency, European Space Agency and Nasa, as well as for geodynamic studies.
The radio telescope will be used also to search extraterrestrial intelligence, by SETI program by NASA.
According to a conspiracy theory the radio telescope is used by the HAARP program, and originated the Cyclone Cleopatra, which hit Sardinia in november 2013.
https://www.researchitaly.it/en/unde...ope-in-europe/
http://www.focus.it/scienza/spazio/i...uropa_C12.aspx
http://lanuovasardegna.gelocal.it/ca...cope-1.7843415
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