Sleeping Giant: Abandoned USSR radio telescope from a bird’s-eye view

READ MORE: A gigantic abandoned Soviet-era telescope nestled high in the Armenian mountains has been revealed in stunning detail in epic drone footage. The massive Herouni Mirror Radio telescope is located about 1,700 meters above sea level near the town of Orgov, Armenia. Built between 1981 and 1985, it was thought to be one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world at the time. The National Institute of Metrology of Armenia, to which the telescope now belongs, is curren