HALCA
(Highly Advanced Laboratory for Communications and Astronomy, VSOP)
(Japanese space radio telescope operating 1997-2005)
HALCA
(for Highly Advanced Laboratory for Communications and Astronomy,
also called VSOP for VLBI Space Observatory Program)
was a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) 8-meter space radio telescope designed to
participate in very-long-baseline interferometry observation in conjunction with ground
radio telescopes. It was launched in 1997
and operational until 2005.
HALCA was presumed to be just the first satellite of the
VLBI Space Observatory Program and a follow-on
(VSOP 2, VSOP B, aka Astro G) was designed but canceled.
More recently the Russian satellite Spektr-R
carried out such VLBI observation.
(telescope,radio,spacecraft,JAXA,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HALCA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro-G
http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/missions/spacecraft/past/halca.html
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/halca
https://www.nrao.edu/pr/1997/halca/
https://www.gb.nrao.edu/ovlbi/pressRelease/press97july.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000PASJ...52..955H/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ASPC..289..375H/abstract
https://www.ursi.org/proceedings/procGA02/papers/p1661.pdf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17647
Referenced by page:
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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