08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
... emulate. “We envisage that this concept would unlock the potential for ground-breaking scientific discoveries in radio astronomy,” concludes Bandyopadhyay. In addition to Bandyopadhyay’s concept, NASA also awarded a Phase III grant to Slava Turyshev...
07 October 2020
Chinese company seeks approval to launch nearly 13,000 satellites
... SKA Director General Phil Diamond via Twitter. “Without corrective actions they will have a major impact on radio astronomy.” When completed, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have an effective collecting area of one square kilometre...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
...the hub of space activities in Australia from the 1950s to 1980 One of the world’s great radio astronomy instruments, the Parkes Radio Telescope has also played a significant role in space exploration. In addition to being the technological prototype...
17 February 2020
Earth-sized planet behind unusual star signals say astronomers
... team’s research, headed by Harish Vedantham based at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy and published today in Nature Astronomy, the star’s radio emissions were unlike either of the two broad categories expected for stellar bursts...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... complicate the thermal management of the spacecraft and, in any case, would fail to solve the problems related to radio astronomy and space debris. Either way, the satellite mega-constellations represent a threat to the astronomical status quo...
02 December 2019
Chang'e 4 relay satellite now a radio telescope
... that have been permeating through space for over 13 billion years. “We are finally in business and have a radio-astronomy instrument of Dutch origin in space. The team has worked incredibly hard, and the first data will...
