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South Africa's national radio astronomy facility, built on a former satellite tracking station near Johannesburg and home since 1975 to a 26-meter radio telescope, the only major single-dish radio telescope on the African continent for decades. It anchors South Africa's role in African and international Very Long Baseline Interferometry networks.

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