This spring Axalta Coating Systems, has once again produced a special coating for the radio telescope in Effelsberg, Germany, one of the largest, fully-steerable radio telescopes in the world and the most powerful for short-wave radiation. The Effelsberg telescope is used to observe pulsars, cold gas and dust clusters, star formations, jets of matter emitted by black holes and the nuclei of far-off galaxies. It is also used as part of a worldwide network of radio telescopes for astronomic observations at the highest resolutions.
Axalta helps to protect the telescope from weathering and UV radiation with a matte-white polyvinylic coating called PercoTop CS551 Foliflex Topcoat. This specially-formulated, tailor-made coating has been applied to the telescope approximately every 18 years since it began operating in 1972.
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