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The new ngRADAR at the Green Bank Telescope offers unprecedented Earth-based views of the solar system

CHIME's new siblings will pinpoint where bursts detected by Canada’s world-renowned telescope come from.

Here are three connections we have to that mission beyond “your tax dollars at work.” First, when the rover was making its dramatic landing on Mars — scientists call the act of landing a spacecraft there “seven minutes of terror” — those signals were relayed through the Green Bank Radio Astronomy Observatory just up the road from us in Green Bank, West Virginia. The staff there knew the rover had landed safely even before those with NASA did. Second, the woman that viewers heard narrating the landing was flight controller Swati Mohan, who is in charge of guidance...

Successful Test Paves Way for New Planetary Radar Credit: NRAO/GBO/Raytheon/NSF/AUI The National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Observatory (GBO) and National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), and Raytheon Intelligence & Space conducted a test in November to prove that a new radio telescope system can capture high-resolution images in near-Earth space. GBO’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia — the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope — was outfitted with a new transmitter developed by Raytheon Intelligence & Space, allowing it to transmit a radar si...