Radio astronomy gets off the ground.(Very Long Baseline Space Observatory launched)(Brief Article)

Science News | February 22, 1997| | Copyright

That dream became reality last week when Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science launched an 8-meter radio telescope into an elliptical orbit that takes it from 990 kilometers to nearly 20,000 km away from Earth. On its own, the sensitivity of this lightweight device, a meshwork of gold-coated molybdenum wire, is nothing to write home about. But by observing radio sources in concert with an existing network of some 40 telescopes distributed across the planet, this space-based detector promises to provide astronomers with their sharpest view yet of the universe.

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