Plans to construct a new radio telescope, perhaps as large as 250 feet in diameter, were disclosed recently by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to the Senate Aeronautical and Space Science Committee. A request for funds to start construction of the facility, to be located at Goldstone, Calif., was included in a tentative NASA budget drafted for the coming fiscal year. Intended as a principal station for communication with satellites and space probes, it has been proposed that the instrument be built as part of a deep‐space network to include two other radio telescopes now under construction in Australia and in South Africa.

Topics
Spacecraft communication, Space science, Space probes, Radio telescopes, Funding, Budget, Governing committees, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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