The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has new opportunities to partner with organizations in addition to the NSF using the assets at the Green Bank site. The 100 m Green Bank Telescope ...(GBT) is the world's largest and most sensitive fully-steerable telescope, and can track at 20 deg min −1 in elevation and 40 deg min −1 in azimuth, providing the ability to track medium Earth orbit, geostationary, and deep space spacecraft. At X-band, its gain of 77 dB is unsurpassed by any fully steerable antenna. In addition to the GBT, the fully steerable, polar-mounted NRAO 140-ft telescope, with tracking rates of 20 deg min −1 , and the 20 m telescope, with tracking rates of 120 deg min −1 , provide a significant suite of instruments that can be deployed for spacecraft communications. Scheduled and target of opportunity observations are supported, allowing regular monitoring of and rapid response to targets.
Stop scolding men for being 'toxic' Watts, Galen; PhD Candidate in the Cultural Studies Graduate Program; University, Queen's ...
The Canadian Press,
04/2019
Newsletter
What does it mean to be spiritual? Watts, Galen; PhD Candidate in the Cultural Studies Graduate Program; University, Queen's ...
The Canadian Press,
11/2017
Newsletter
NRAO recently designed and built a universal backend system for the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory's (SHAO) 65 meter radio telescope which was constructed near the city of Shanghai, China. The ...machine, called the Digital Backend System (DIBAS), was created from the design of the VErsatile GBT Astronomical Spectrometer (VEGAS) by adding nine incoherent pulsar search modes and eight coherent dedispersion timing modes to complement the 29 VEGAS spectral line modes. Together these modes cover all of the anticipated science requirements for the 65 meter except for VLBI.
