August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
...used the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s 85-foot radio telescope to detect interstellar radio waves. This ...answer to N. The young Frank Drake was one of the first radio astronomers at the NRAO in Greenbank West Virginia in 1958. Drake ...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
...ambitious plans is to place a small observatory on the south pole of the Moon comprising of both a combined radio astronomy/communications payload and an optical telescope in order to conduct astrophysical studies from our nearest celestial neighbour...
22 March 2019
Citizen science project turns research into a quest
The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Western Australia is inviting “citizen scientists” around the world to become Astro Questers. After 210 nights of ...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... of applications, not just in space but across the piece, means that the protection that exists for radio astronomy could come under increasing pressure. Space graffiti Although the provision of global internet from space would...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... the largest man-made object in space, but the implications are serious. Estimates of the sensitivity of the radio astronomy community’s flagship project, the Square Kilometre Array, suggest that it will have sufficient sensitivity to detect objects...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... the 1970s. Further, in a brief moment of excitement on Columbus Day 1992, NASA announced a ten-year, $100 million radio astronomy programme called SETI/HRMS (high resolution microwave survey). However, it was cancelled by the US Congress. Since the...
