The Warkworth 30m Radio Telescope is located just south of Warkworth off SH1 about 50 km north of Auckland.
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The Warkworth 30m Radio Telescope is operated by the Institute for Radio Astronomy and Space Research,[1] AUT University. AUT University was formally granted a license[2] to operate the Warkworth 2 antenna by Telecom New Zealand in November 2010.
It is a 30-metre Cassegrain wheel-and-track beam waveguide antenna. It was manufactured in 1983 by Nippon Electric Corp., and since then it was used by Telecom NZ for communication between New Zealand and Pacific Islands.[3]