Construction of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is complete, but debugging has only just begun.
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Cyranoski, D. Daring Chinese telescope is poised to transform astronomy. Nature 537, 593–594 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/537593a
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