Teachers and students in their final years of the School of Telecommunications Engineering (ETSIT) of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) are finished building the first radio telescope in Spain fully developed human and technological resources of a public university.
is a device that is expected, even after the end of participation in the international Search of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) whose mission is to search for possible extraterrestrial radio signals that have an artificial origin.
professor at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), José Luis Gómez Tornero, says the device can study celestial objects and astrophysical phenomena by measuring the emission of electromagnetic radiation, but its main purpose will be to disseminate the technology that makes possible to design and implementation, and the discipline of radio astronomy, including students, teachers and general public.
The telescope developed by the UPCT have a limited capacity, with a three-antenna meters in diameter "is not intended to compete with the big professional teams, which can have an antenna 60 meters in diameter."
The telescope, you can pick up signals in the area of \u200b\u200bthe galaxy in which Earth is located, the Milky Way, has been developed over the past four years. The unit is finished, failing to assemble the various component parts to be assembled in its final position in the UPCT observatory is scheduled to open next summer after the roof of the Support Services Technology Research ( SAIT) located in the Plaza del Hospital, on campus Muralla del Mar.
