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Location of Telescopes with NIST Technology
North America
- Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope
Green Bank Observatory, West Virginia - Large Millimeter Telescope
Sierra Negra, Mexico - James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
Mauna Kea, Hawaii - Arizona Radio Observatory
Kitt Peak, Arizona - Hobby-Eberly Telescope
McDonald Observatory, near Fort Davis, Texas -
WIYN Telescope
Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona -
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
A Boeing 747SP aircraft, modified to carry a telescope and cameras. Operated and maintained by NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California. -
MLO Lunar Spectral Irradiance (MLO-LUSI) Project
Mauna Loa Observatory, island of Hawaii in the state of Hawaii -
Airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance (air-LUSI) Instrument
Flown on NASA’s ER-2 aircraft, a high-altitude aircraft based at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California
South Pole/Antartica
- SPIDER
Balloon experiment launched from Antarctica - Balloon-Borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope: The Next Generation (BLAST-TNG)
A stratospheric balloon experiment launched from Antarctica - BICEP and KECK Array
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station - Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 (CMB-S4)
South Pole and the Atacama Desert in Chile - South Pole Telescope
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica
South America
- Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Atacama Desert in Chile - NIST Stars
Cerro Paranal, Chile - Simons Observatory
Atacama Desert in Chile - Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope
Cerro Chajnantor, Chile - Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS)
Atacama Desert in Chile - Simons Array/POLARBEAR
James Ax Observatory at Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert, Chile - Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 (CMB-S4)
South Pole and the Atacama Desert in Chile
Asia
- Ali CMB Polarization Telescope (AliCPT)
Tibet, China