In:
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 3, No. 5 ( 1979), p. 353-354
Abstract:
The primary function of the 64-m telescope, situated at Tidbinbilla near Canberra, is to communicate with and to control NASA’s unmanned interplanetary space craft (Reid et al . 1973). Similar telescopes are situated at Goldstone in California and in Madrid and are part of the NASA-JPL Deep Space Network (DSN). Under the Host Country Radio Science Agreement between the U.S. and Australia the telescope is available to Australian astronomers at times outside those committed to normal tracking. A radiometer operating at λ = 13.5 mm has been built by CSIRO for use on the 64-m telescope. It was initially used for VLBI observations of water vapour masers on baselines between the U.S., Australia and USSR (Batchelor et al . 1976).
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1323-3580
,
1448-6083
DOI:
10.1017/S1323358000026540
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1979
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2560489-2
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2079225-6
SSG:
16,12
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