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VSOP, A Space VLBI Programme

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

H. Hirabayashi
H. Hirabayashi*
Affiliation:
The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 299, Japan

Abstract

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VSOP, VLBI Space Observatory Programme, is an approved space VLBI programme of ISAS for the study of very compact radio sources with the synthesized aperture of 30,000 km diameter, by connecting an orbiting radio observatory with ground radiotelescopes. The VSOP satellite carrying 10 m antenna with 1.6, 5, and 22 GHz band receivers will be launched in early 1995 by M-V rocket of ISAS into an eccentric orbit with 20,000 km in apogee height. The tracking network will be formed for the satellite orbit determination, phase transfer and IF down-link. VSOP aims imaging capability with best resolution of 0.0001 arc second in 22 GHz band. Imaging of active galactic nuclei, star forming regions and stellar objects, and radioastrometry are main scientific targets.

Type
II. Future Missions
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 123: Observatories in Earth Orbit and Beyond , 1990 , pp. 263 - 269
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990

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