Sentences with phrase «meter radio dish»

It will be beamed three times in succession at four sunlike stars about 60 light - years from Earth, using a 70 - meter radio dish at the Evpatoriya Radio Observatory in Ukraine.

Not exact matches

In 1960, Drake pointed a 26 - meter radio telescope dish in Green Bank, West Virginia, at two stars for a few days each.

The observatory's 305 - meter - wide main dish was until recently the largest radio telescope in the world (a bigger one, the FAST radio telescope, opened in China in 2016).

The GBT features a steerable 100 - by 110 - meter elliptical radio dish, making it the largest of its kind in the world followed by the slightly smaller 100 - meter Radio Telescope Effelsberg in Germany and the 76 - meter Lovell Telescope in Engradio dish, making it the largest of its kind in the world followed by the slightly smaller 100 - meter Radio Telescope Effelsberg in Germany and the 76 - meter Lovell Telescope in EngRadio Telescope Effelsberg in Germany and the 76 - meter Lovell Telescope in England.

What's missing from the partnership is the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which at 305 meters wide is the biggest and most sensitive single - dish radio telescope in the world.

The high - altitude locale 5,000 meters above sea level will enable the ALMA's 12 - meter - wide dishes, at least 50 of them, to probe the shorter radio wavelengths near the infrared that the atmosphere tends to filter out.

Using a large radio telescope with a dish 13.7 meters across the astronomers sought the dense interstellar gas clouds that mark spiral arms.

The Breakthrough Listen team studied «Oumuamua — which may be up to a quarter - mile (400 meters) long — across four radio bands that spanned billions of individual channels yesterday (Dec. 13), using an instrument on the 330 - foot (100 m) Green Bank dish.

The dish of the radio telescope based in Yebes, Spain, measures more than 13 meters across.

ALMA will consist of 64 12 - meter - diameter dish antennas comprising a single imaging telescope to study the universe at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths — the region between radio waves and infrared waves.

The VLBA is a system of ten radio - telescope antennas, each with a dish 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter and weighing 240 tons.

On July 18, 2011, the Russian Space Agency launched a satellite into orbit that unfolded into a 10 - meter (33 - foot) dish radio telescope called Spektr - R.

The phenomena, known as fast radio bursts or FRBs, were first detected in 2007 by astronomers scouring archival data from Australia's Parkes Telescope, a 64 - meter diameter dish best known for its role receiving live televison images from the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.

Incredibly, the only substantial damage sustained by the radio telescope's suspended, 900 - ton receiver platform, which sits 150 meters above the 305 - meter dish, was the loss of the catwalk floor and the 430 MHz line feed; the five - ton line feed also smashed a few dozen of the dish's 38,000 panels in its fall.

By comparison, the first FRB ever detected also struck the same dish — the 64 - meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia — in 2001, but was only reported in 2007.

The astronomers found dozens of these galaxies with the South Pole Telescope, a 10 - meter dish in Antarctica that surveys the sky in millimeter - wavelength light (situated between radio and the infrared on the electromagnetic spectrum).