Radio Telescopes – Page 15 – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Green Bank Telescope Joins ‘Breakthrough Listen’

Posted on July 20, 2015November 19, 2019

GBT receives funding to join search for intelligent life in Universe.

ALMA Gains New Capability in First Successful VLBI Observation

Posted on March 5, 2015March 28, 2017

ALMA achieves ‘first light’ VLBI observation.

ALMA Residencia Construction to Start

Posted on January 16, 2015November 26, 2019

Contract awarded to build new residence for staff and visitors at ALMA.

Artists's conception of Saturn and its moons

Improved Saturn Positions Help Spacecraft Navigation, Planet Studies, Fundamental Physics

Posted on January 8, 2015March 23, 2017

Scientists have used the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio-telescope system and NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to measure the position of Saturn and its family of moons to within about a mile — at a range of nearly a billion miles.

New VLA Observing System Completed, Begins Scientific Operations

Posted on December 9, 2014March 22, 2017

A new system that makes the Karl G Jansky Very Large Array two telescopes in one has been completed and its scientific operations are underway.

NRAO Media Tip Sheet September 2014

Posted on September 25, 2014March 31, 2017

ALMA finds new organic molecule; VLA reveals details of still-forming planetary system; NRAO patent for new radio synthesizer.

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