A Brief History of Space VLBI

Abstract

Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry is a radio astronomy technique distinguished by a record-high angular resolution reaching single-digit microseconds of arc. The paper provides a brief account of the history of developments of this technique over the period 1960s-2020s.

To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE "History of Electrotechnology Conference", Florence, Italy, 2023. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1810.01230

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