Enhancing our telescopes
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.

Developing new technologies
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.

External contracts
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.

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).

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