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CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.

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Technologies for Radio Astronomy

Developing new technologies for CSIRO telescopes and other telescopes around the world.

CSIRO staff Dr Warwick Wilson, CEO Megan Clarke, and Dr Lewis Ball.

Turning on the data tap - the Australia Telescope Compact Array can now capture 80 times more data than before.

A digitising chip.

Super-fast chips boost telescope's power - new indium phosphide chips let us observe at more wavelengths.

Photo: Eliane Hakvoort working on a radio telescope receiver.

Expertise in receivers - designing devices to amplify weak signals from space.

Five antennas of CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array, with the Moon above.

Capturing nanosecond pulses - detecting signals a thousand times faster than usual.

Enhancing our telescopes

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Enhancing our telescopes

- Recent changes to CSIRO’s Australia Telescope have made one of the world’s most advanced radio telescopes even more powerful. CSIRO has boosted the power of its Australia Telescope through chips made of an advanced semiconductor material, indium phosphide. Learn more>

Developing new technologies

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Developing new technologies

- CSIRO has been awarded three of the Australian Research Council’s new Super Science Fellowships, worth a total of $835,000 over three years, to develop technology for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope. Learn more>

External contracts

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External contracts

- In the 1990s, CSIRO built a ground-breaking instrument for its own Parkes radio telescope. Now it’s built one for the world’s largest telescope. A special CSIRO imager is helping the world’s largest telescope see further and faster. Learn more>

CASS engineers and technicians have the specialised skills needed to design and construct the equipment needed to receive, amplify, and process cosmic radio waves.

They also research areas such as the mitigation of radio-frequency interference, measurement of antenna surfaces, telescope control, and techniques used in combining multiple antennas (interferometry).

Contact Information

Mr Graeme Carrad

Assistant Director - Engineering

CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science

Phone: 61 2 9372 4305

Email: Graeme.Carrad@csiro.au

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CSIRO aims to establish and build relationships with members of the community. We welcome people of all ages to come and explore our facilities, holiday programs and public events.

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1300 363 400

Email:

enquiries@csiro.au

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About CSIRO

CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.