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CSIRO has placed the contract for the design and build of 36 ASKAP antennas with the 54th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (known as CETC54). CETC54 is a state-owned institution, established in 1952. It has undertaken thousands of government and commercial projects in satellite communication, tracking, telemetry and control, and has designed and built the 50-m Miyun radio telescope for receiving data from China's Chang'E1 satellite. The institute is headquartered in Shijiazhuang, in Hebei province, about 200 km south of Beijing. ASKAP requires low-cost, low-power and low-manpower build antennas on a scale not previously realised. ASKAP will be a survey telescope and its antennas must therefore provide a wide field-of-view - 30 square degrees - achieved by using a focal plane array that creates 30 separate, simultaneous beams. The image illustrates the design of the ASKAP antennas as they will appear at the MRO site. (Source: http://www.atnf.c