Lovell Telescope
radio telescope, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
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Lovell Telescope
Lovell Telescope, a fully steerable radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England.
The Lovell Telescope is a large, fully steerable radio telescope located at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England. Construction began in 1952, and it became operational shortly before the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957. The telescope was instrumental in tracking early space exploration efforts by both the Soviet Union and the United States. It was renamed the Lovell Telescope in 1987 in honor of Sir Bernard Lovell, the English radio astronomer who founded and directed the Jodrell Bank Observatory.12
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