# FAST

*Observatory*

Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, Guizhou

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 25.6500° N, 106.8600° E |
| State | CN |
| What is done there | radio observatory |
| Dish | 500 m |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, nicknamed Tianyan, is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang depression, a natural basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou, southwestern China.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=25.65,106.86
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.