List of radio telescopes

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Name Remarks Location
Algonquin Radio Observatory 46 metre dish, Operated by [Natural Resources Canada] as a member of the International VLBI Service Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada
Arecibo Observatory Also known as: Arecibo radio telescope or NAIC Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) 64 dishes with 12-m diameter, sensitive to wavelengths between radio and infrared (submillimetre astronomy). Largest and most expensive ground-based telescope in the world until LOFAR is commenced. Llano de Chajnantor Observatory, Atacama Desert, Chile
Australia Telescope Compact Array 6 dish aperture synthesis array, part of Australia Telescope National Facility Narrabri, Australia
Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex Part of Deep Space Network, located near Canberra in the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory seven-element interferometer, 26-m single-dish, solar monitor, and engineering laboratories Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
Effelsberg 100 m dish operated by Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie Bad Münstereifel-Effelsberg near Bonn, Germany
European VLBI Network VLBI array operated by the European Consortium for VLBI Distributed across Europe with members located in China, S. Africa and USA
Five College Radio Astronomical Observatory Operated by UMass Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) World's largest radio telescope at meter wavelengths. Operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Pune, India
Green Bank Telescope World's largest fully mobile single-dish radio 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
HALCA (Highly Advanced Laboratory for Communications and Astronomy) Earth orbit with an apogee altitude of 21,400 km and a perigee altitude of 560 km.
HartRAO Also known as Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory Johannesburg, South Africa
Jodrell Bank Observatory 76 m Lovell Telescope, 25 m Mk II Telescope, 42 ft (12.8 m) Telescope and 7 m Telescope (actually 6.4 m diameter) Cheshire, UK
Kitt Peak 12 m Previously operated by the NRAO, this telescope is currently operated by the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory. Tucson, Arizona, USA
Large Millimeter Telescope A 50 m. telescope in millimetric wavelenghts, the largest single dish instrument operating at this frequences. Sierra Negra, Mexico
LOFAR Low Frequency Array, Netherlands, Germany
MERLIN Cambridge 32 m at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Darnhall, Defford, Tabley (also known as Pickmere) and Knockin. Also includes the Lovell and Mark II telescopes at Jodrell Bank. UK
Medicina VLBI Dish 32m., fully steerable dish, 1400 MHz...43GHz, Northern Cross 32000m² Interferometer, cyl-paraboloid steerable over NS., 408 MHz, Beam=3' Medicina, Bologna Italy [link]
Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope Operated by the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. East-west arm of the former Molonglo Cross Telescope, approximately 800 m in length. Operates at 843 MHz. Molonglo (near Canberra, Australia)
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory The Ryle Telescope consists of 8 13 m dishes, and is currently used as one part of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager. Also at the observatory are some of the oldest radio interferometers. 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) U.S. Agency which runs the Green Bank Telescope, the Very Large Array, and is the U.S. partner in the ALMA collaboration. Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Noto VLBI Dish 32m., fully steerable dish, 300MHz...86GHz. It operate as a part of Astronomic and geodetic VLBI network and as single dish. Noto, ITALY, [link]
Onsala Space Observatory 25 m Telescope, 20 m Telescope and 15 m Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) based at ESO in La Silla, Chile Onsala, Sweden
Parkes Observatory 64 m Telescope (largest movable dish in the Southern Hemisphere), part of Australia Telescope National Facility Parkes, Australia
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute Two 26 m dishes Rosman, North Carolina, USA
Submillimeter Array Operated jointly by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of Taiwan. Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii, USA
Toruń Centre for Astronomy RT4 (32 m) parabolic antenna and RT3 (15 m) antenna. Toruń, Poland
Very Large Array Array of 27 dishes. Part of NRAO. Socorro, New Mexico, USA
Very Small Array Array of 14 dishes, with two larger source-subtraction dishes. Controlled remotely from UK. Observatorio del Teide, Canary Islands, Spain
Very Long Baseline Array Array system of radio telescopes located in or offshore from the USA; controlled remotely from the Array Operations Center. Socorro, New Mexico USA
(operations center)
Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) Array of radio telescopes [link] Westerbork, Netherlands
Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center (VIRAC) 32-meter fully steerable parabolic, centimetre-wave range antenna RT-32 and a 16-meter diameter antenna RT-16 http://www.virac.lv/ Irbene, Latvia
Zond 3 Russian spacecraft carrying a radio Telescope

Name	Remarks	Location
Algonquin Radio Observatory	46 metre dish, Operated by [Natural Resources Canada] as a member of the International VLBI Service	Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada
Arecibo Observatory	Also known as: Arecibo radio telescope or NAIC	Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)	64 dishes with 12-m diameter, sensitive to wavelengths between radio and infrared (submillimetre astronomy). Largest and most expensive ground-based telescope in the world until LOFAR is commenced.	Llano de Chajnantor Observatory, Atacama Desert, Chile
Australia Telescope Compact Array	6 dish aperture synthesis array, part of Australia Telescope National Facility	Narrabri, Australia
Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex	Part of Deep Space Network, located near Canberra in the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve	Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory	seven-element interferometer, 26-m single-dish, solar monitor, and engineering laboratories	Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
Effelsberg	100 m dish operated by Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie	Bad Münstereifel-Effelsberg near Bonn, Germany
European VLBI Network	VLBI array operated by the European Consortium for VLBI	Distributed across Europe with members located in China, S. Africa and USA
Five College Radio Astronomical Observatory	Operated by UMass Amherst	Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT)	World's largest radio telescope at meter wavelengths. Operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics	Pune, India
Green Bank Telescope	World's largest fully mobile single-dish radio 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
HALCA	(Highly Advanced Laboratory for Communications and Astronomy)	Earth orbit with an apogee altitude of 21,400 km and a perigee altitude of 560 km.
HartRAO	Also known as Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory	Johannesburg, South Africa
Jodrell Bank Observatory	76 m Lovell Telescope, 25 m Mk II Telescope, 42 ft (12.8 m) Telescope and 7 m Telescope (actually 6.4 m diameter)	Cheshire, UK
Kitt Peak 12 m	Previously operated by the NRAO, this telescope is currently operated by the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory.	Tucson, Arizona, USA
Large Millimeter Telescope	A 50 m. telescope in millimetric wavelenghts, the largest single dish instrument operating at this frequences.	Sierra Negra, Mexico
LOFAR	Low Frequency Array,	Netherlands, Germany
MERLIN	Cambridge 32 m at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Darnhall, Defford, Tabley (also known as Pickmere) and Knockin. Also includes the Lovell and Mark II telescopes at Jodrell Bank.	UK
Medicina	VLBI Dish 32m., fully steerable dish, 1400 MHz...43GHz, Northern Cross 32000m² Interferometer, cyl-paraboloid steerable over NS., 408 MHz, Beam=3'	Medicina, Bologna Italy [link]
Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope	Operated by the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. East-west arm of the former Molonglo Cross Telescope, approximately 800 m in length. Operates at 843 MHz.	Molonglo (near Canberra, Australia)
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory	The Ryle Telescope consists of 8 13 m dishes, and is currently used as one part of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager. Also at the observatory are some of the oldest radio interferometers.	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)	U.S. Agency which runs the Green Bank Telescope, the Very Large Array, and is the U.S. partner in the ALMA collaboration.	Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Noto	VLBI Dish 32m., fully steerable dish, 300MHz...86GHz. It operate as a part of Astronomic and geodetic VLBI network and as single dish.	Noto, ITALY, [link]
Onsala Space Observatory	25 m Telescope, 20 m Telescope and 15 m Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) based at ESO in La Silla, Chile	Onsala, Sweden
Parkes Observatory	64 m Telescope (largest movable dish in the Southern Hemisphere), part of Australia Telescope National Facility	Parkes, Australia
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute	Two 26 m dishes	Rosman, North Carolina, USA
Submillimeter Array	Operated jointly by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of Taiwan.	Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii, USA
Toruń Centre for Astronomy	RT4 (32 m) parabolic antenna and RT3 (15 m) antenna.	Toruń, Poland
Very Large Array	Array of 27 dishes. Part of NRAO.	Socorro, New Mexico, USA
Very Small Array	Array of 14 dishes, with two larger source-subtraction dishes. Controlled remotely from UK.	Observatorio del Teide, Canary Islands, Spain
Very Long Baseline Array	Array system of radio telescopes located in or offshore from the USA; controlled remotely from the Array Operations Center.	Socorro, New Mexico USA (operations center)
Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT)	Array of radio telescopes [link]	Westerbork, Netherlands
Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center (VIRAC)	32-meter fully steerable parabolic, centimetre-wave range antenna RT-32 and a 16-meter diameter antenna RT-16 http://www.virac.lv/	Irbene, Latvia
Zond 3	Russian spacecraft carrying a radio Telescope

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List of radio telescopes

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