Radioastron (Spectr-R Project)—a radio telescope much larger than the earth: main parameters and prelaunch tests
Abstract
The Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Federal Space Agency are planning to launch Radioastron in 2011, which is a unique space observatory with a 10-meter reflector antenna. In conjunction with the largest ground-based radio telescopes and tracking stations, it forms the first system that will be able to carry out studies with a resolution millions of times greater than that of eyesight.
- Publication:
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Solar System Research
- Pub Date:
- December 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1134/S0038094612070027
- Bibcode:
- 2012SoSyR..46..458A
- Keywords:
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- space radio telescope;
- interferometer;
- angular resolution;
- sensitivity;
- atomic microwave oscillator;
- tests