SSA with Radiotelescopes

 

Our extremely sensitive radiotelescopes and technical expertise offer the opportunity to support niche applications and track transmitting objects more precisely than most other systems.

Our radio telescopes are designed to observe faint radio emissions from astronomical objects.

They can also pick up radio signals from spacecraft. Non-astronomy uses of our telescopes include:

• Tracking satellites and other spacecraft: refining their trajectories using doppler information and interferometry from multiple telescopes
• Passive radio frequency surveillance: characterising emissions more sensitively and across broader bands than most other systems
• Bistatic radar tracking objects such as asteroids, defunct assets, and debris, characterising objects from reflections