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Open AccessMillimetron—a large Russian-European submillimeter space observatory
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The Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Federal Space Agency are planning to launch Radioastron in 2011, which is a unique space observatory with a 10-meter reflector antenna. In conjunction with the larg...
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Radioastron (Spectr-R project)—a radio telescope much larger than the earth: Ground segment and key science areas
The space interferometer Radioastron is working jointly with the largest radio telescopes of the world. Ground tracking stations provide for retrieving the information and determining the orbital parameters for d...
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The Russian Academy of Sciences and Federal Space Agency, together with the participation of many international organizations, worked toward the launch of the RadioAstron orbiting space observatory with its on...
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The paper considers the design, features, and characteristics of the Russian space-ground very long baseline radio interferometer (VLBRI) RadioAstron.
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To transmit radio-astronomy and auxiliary data from a space radio telescope to a ground tracking station (and then to a correlator) via radio link it is necessary to use a special data format and coding and de...