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List of radio telescopes



         



Name Remarks Location
Arecibo Observatory Also known as: Arecibo radio telescope or NAIC Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Australia Telescope Compact Array 6 dish aperture synthesis array, part of Australia Telescope National Facility Narrabri, Australia
Deep Space Network   Fort Irwin, California, USA
Effelsberg 100m dish operated by Max Planck Institut fur Radioastronomie Bad Münstereifel-Effelsberg near Bonn, Germany
Five College Radio Astronomical Observatory Operated by UMass Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) World's largest radio telescope at meter wavelengths. Operated by National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Pune, India
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute Two 26-meter dishes Rosman, North Carolina, USA
Green Bank Telescope   Green Bank, West Virginia, USA
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC) Also known as Goldstone Observatory Goldstone, California, USA
Goldstone Observatory Also known as Goldstone Deep Space Network Goldstone, California, USA
HartRAO Also known as Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory Johannesburg, South Africa
Jodrell Bank Observatory 76m Lovell Telescope, 25m MkII Telescope, 42ft Telescope and 7m Telescope (actually 6.4m diameter) Cheshire, UK
Kitt Peak 12m Out of commission Tucson, Arizona, USA
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory The Ryle Telescope consists of 8 13m dishes Cambridge, UK
Nançay Radio Telescope   Nançay, France
National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) Also known as Arecibo Observatory or Arecibo radio telescope Arecibo, Puerto Rico
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)    
Onsala Space Observatory 25m Telescope, 20m Telescope and 15m Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) based at ESO in La Silla, Chile Onsala, Sweden
Parkes Observatory 64m Telescope, part of Australia Telescope National Facility Parkes, Australia
Torun Centre for Astronomy RT4 (32m) parabolic antenna and RT3 (15m) antenna. Torun, Poland
Very Large Array Array of 25 dishes. Part of NRAO. Socorro, New Mexico, USA
Very Long Baseline Array Array system of radio telescopes located around the world; controlled remotely from the Array Operations Center. Socorro, New Mexico USA
(operations center)
Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) Array of radio telescopes Westerbork, Netherlands
Zond 3 Russian spacecraft carrying a radio Telescope  


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