After four years of construction, a solar radio imaging telescope has completed its hardware integration in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan Province, and officially entered the phase of concept verification.

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The telescope is composed of 313 6-meter-diameter antennas. All antennas are uniformly distributed along a circle 1,000 meters in diameter.

The telescope is expected to be put into trial operation in June 2023.