Astronomy without Borders
Working from China, Astronomers from CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility, China's Shanghai Astronomical Observatory and Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have remotely controlled the 25-m Seshan radio telescope near Shanghai, the 34-m telescope in Kashima, Japan, and the CSIRO radio telescopes near Parkes, Coonabarabran and Narrabri in New South Wales and streamed their data to CSIRO’s Parkes Observatory in New South Wales for processing in real time. Each telescope required 512 megabits per second of bandwidth. Data links were provided by AARNet (Australia’s National Research and Education Network) and its counterparts CSTNet in China, JGN2plus in Japan, and CENIC, PNWGP and Pacific Wave in the USA.
For more information on this event, see the press release from CSIRO.
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