List of radio telescopes and research stations
Antarctic
- South Pole Telescope (SPT)
Argentina
Australia
- Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)
- Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA)
- Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (ground station of the Deep Space Network of NASA )
- Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory near Hobart, Tasmania
- Murchison Widefield Array
- New Norcia, deep space station from ESTRACK
- Parkes Observatory
Belgium
Atmospheric research
Chile
- Atacama Cosmology Telescope
- APEX
- Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (ALMA)
- Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment
- NANTEN telescope
China
- 25-meter Sheshan radio telescope near Shanghai , operated by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
- 25-meter radio telescope from Ürümqi , with a highly sensitive 6 cm receiver, built by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy , with which several joint projects are carried out
- 40-meter radio telescope in Kunming operated by the Yunnan Astronomical Observatory
- 50-meter radio telescope at Miyun near Beijing
- 40-meter radio telescope at Miyun
- 65 meter Tianma radio telescope near Shanghai
- FAST observatory near Pingtang in Guizhou , the world's radio telescope with the largest structural single main mirror of around 520 meters in diameter
- Qitai 110-meter radio telescope, scheduled for completion in 2023, will be the world's largest fully articulated radio telescope when completed
- Chinese Spectral Radio Heliograph (CSRH), based on 40 radio oteslescopes with a diameter of 4.5 m for the range from 400 MHz to 2 GHz and 60 telescopes with a diameter of 2 meters for the range 2–15 GHz
Germany
Radio astronomy
- 25 m radio telescope Astropeiler on the Stockert near Bad Münstereifel , the first German radio telescope from 1956, since 1999 a listed building
- Solar Radio Astronomy Observatory (OSRA)
- 36 m radio telescope Berlin-Adlershof (dismantled in the 1970s)
- 100 m radio telescope Effelsberg , which is operated by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn (MPIfR)
- Three radio telescopes of the geodetic observatory Wettzell
- Stations of the LOFAR network in Effelsberg (in the immediate vicinity of the 100-meter radio telescope), Garching near Munich , Tautenburg , Potsdam , Jülich and Norderstedt
Atmospheric research
- Ionoprobe Juliusruh
- OSWIN radar ( Kühlungsborn )
- SOUSY radar ( Bad Lauterberg )
Basic research
Finland
- KAIRA , Kilpisjärvi
- Metsähovi (Finland)
- Tuorlan observatorio
France
Great Britain
Radio astronomy
Atmospheric research
- Lerwick ion probe
- Port Stanley ion probe ( Falkland Islands )
India
Italy
- Medicina
- Noto (Sicily)
- Sardinia Radio Telescope
Japan
Canada
Kazakhstan
Latvia
- VIRAC , Irbene
Mexico
Netherlands
Radio astronomy
- LOFAR (under construction)
- Westerbork , Westerbork radio telescope ( ASTRON radio interferometer )
Atmospheric research
- Havelte
Norway
Atmospheric and ionospheric research
Poland
- Thorn-Piwnice (Poland)
Puerto Rico
Russia
Sweden
- Onsala Space Observatory
- European Incoherent Scatter (ionospheric research)
Switzerland
- Observatory of the University of Bern in Zimmerwald
- Lead observatory of the ETH Zurich in Gränichen
- The 3 m KOSMA telescope operated by the Cologne Observatory for Submillimeter Astronomy and the Radio Astronomical Institute of the University of Bonn (RAIUB) on the Gornergrat in Switzerland
Spain
- Cebreros , deep space station from ESTRACK
- IRAM 30 m telescope on Pico Veleta
- Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (NASA's Deep Space Network ground station)
- Yebes radio telescope
South Africa
Ukraine
United States
Radio telescopes
- Arecibo Observatory (Puerto Rico)
- Allen Telescope Array
- BIMA millimeter interferometer
- Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
- Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy (CARMA)
- Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (also ground station of NASA's Deep Space Network)
- Green Bank Telescope near Green Bank ( West Virginia )
- Hat Creek Radio Observatory
- Haystack Observatory
- Heinrich Hertz Telescope
- James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
- Kitt Peak National Observatory
- Mauna Kea Observatory
- Owens Valley Radio Observatory
- The Dish
- Very Large Array (VLA) near Socorro
- Very long baseline array
Ionospheric research
See also
- For broadcasting systems and fixed radio services: List of known broadcasting systems
Individual evidence
Commons : Radio telescopes - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- ↑ Ralf Drescher: A new type of telescope is being built on the science site. In: berliner-woche.de. Retrieved March 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Welcome to the AIfA. In: uni-bonn.de. Retrieved March 23, 2018 .
- ↑ KOSMA. In: uni-koeln.de. Retrieved March 23, 2018 .