Tag: Parkes radio telescope
60 years after it first gazed at the skies, the Parkes dish is still making breakthroughs
Image: CSIRO, Author provided
The CSIRO’s 64-metre Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on October 31 1961. At the time it was the most advanced radio...
Not one but two Aussie dishes were used to get the TV signals back from the Apollo 11 moonwalk
US astronaut Neil Armstrong on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission.
NASA
The role Australia played in relaying the first television images of...