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| The 300-foot Green Bank Telescope before and after the collapse |
In 1958, the Federal Communications Commission and the Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee established that it is need of an area in which radio transmissions to be strictly restricted by law to facilitate scientific research and military intelligence. This area of approximately 13,000 square miles is located in West Virginia, Virginia, and a small part of Maryland, and is named United States National Radio Quiet Zone. Within it, at Green Bank, in West Virginia, was completed in 1962 a a 91m (300-foot) partially steerable radiotelescope, one of the most powerful in the world.
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