Red Coast Base

Location from The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

Top-secret military installation atop Radar Peak in the Greater Khingan Mountains where, in 1971, humanity sent its first interstellar transmission — and eight years later, received a reply.

Also known as: Red Coast, Project 596 (cover name)

What They Know

• The transmitter is capable of using the sun's microwave cavities as a natural amplifier — a technique discovered there by Ye Wenjie
• Officially a microwave weapon program targeting enemy satellites; secretly China's first SETI installation
• Personnel are typically assigned for life with no possibility of transfer — including Ye Wenjie, who was recruited out of prison

Connections

• located_in — radar_peak
• home_of — ye_wenjie
• home_of — yang_weining
• home_of — lei_zhicheng

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