Description: RadioAstron was an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. Launch was on 18 July 2011 and the space radio telescope was unfolded on 23 July 2011; after 11 January 2019 the…
Description: Quasat was to be an Earth-orbiting radio antenna used in conjunction with ground-based Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) networks in Europe, the USA, the USSR, and Australia. Initial discussions began in 1982; planning ended in 1988. This unit…
Description: ARISE was a proposed future space VLBI mission that would succeed the VLBI Space Observatory Program (VSOP; see separate entry below). It was one of the moderate-sized projects recommended by the decadal survey in astronomy in 2000 (Astronomy and…
