Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999pabei..17..136w&link_type=abstract
Prog. Astron., Vol. 17, No. 2, p. 136 - 147
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Space Missions: Vlb Interferometry, Space Instrumentation: Radio Telescopes
Scientific paper
The VSOP (VLBI Space Observatory Programme) mission is led by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, in collaboration with the National Observatory of Japan. It was launched on February 12, 1997. The VSOP satellite, renamed HALCA after its successful launch, carries a radio telescope with 8 m in diameter, and moves in an elliptical Earth orbit, with an apogee height of 21000 km. The resolution is three times better than that with ground VLBI array. The RadioAstron program was initiated by Astro Space Center (ASC) of Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, and has expanded into a broad international collaboration. It has a 10 m radio telescope, and its orbit has an apogee height about 70000 km, providing an angular resolution as high as 30 microarcsecond. ARISE is a next-generation space VLBI satellite under development. The launch of the satellite will probably be in 2008.
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