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On 3 October 2008 the 26m HartRAO antenna at Hartebeesthoek suffered a failure of its major bearing at the southern end of the main polar drive shaft.
Norbert Bartel of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told the meeting that if optical astronomers though they had a hard time getting telescope time in a hurry, they should have been in on the 58 hours of telephoning it took to arrange simultaneous observations by the two radiotelescopes in the Southern Hemisphere capable of this work, which are located at Hartebeesthoek, South Africa, and Tidbinbilla, near Canberra, Australia.
Controllers at the ground station in Hartebeesthoek, South Africa have made contact with the satellite and confirmed that all systems are functioning properly.
 
 
 
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