Jodrell Bank Observatory is a radio astronomy site in Cheshire, England, established by the University of Manchester. Bernard Lovell founded it to study cosmic rays and meteors using army surplus radar equipment, and it grew into one of the world's leading radio astronomy centres. Its best-known instrument, the Lovell Telescope, completed in the 1950s, is a huge steerable dish that tracked the Soviet Sputnik carrier rocket in 1957 and later tracked deep space probes. The observatory is the headquarters of the e-MERLIN array and of the Square Kilometre Array project, and it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2019.
Before and after
- 7 December 1944Founding of International Civil Aviation Organization
- 18 December 1944Launch of Le Monde
- from 20 December 1944 to 27 December 1944Siege of Bastogne
- from 1945 to 1947Operation B
- 1945Founding of Jodrell Bank Observatory
- 1945Founding of United Nations Economic and Social Council
- 1945Discovery of promethium
- 1945Founding of United Nations Trusteeship Council
- 1945Founding of United Nations Secretariat
More in Universe & space
- 1 May 1949Discovery of Nereid
- 20 August 1977Launch of Voyager 2
- 28 July 1989Discovery of Galatea
- 23 July 1995Discovery of Comet Hale-Bopp
- 15 May 2005Discovery of Hydra
- 10 September 2005Discovery of Dysnomia
The era
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