UpCyc – Restoring the radio telescope at the University of Canberra

The heritage 10m radio telescope on the University of Canberra (UC) campus is a high-quality instrument that was first used in the 1980s in the Orroral Valley and later moved to the university campus. Falling out of use for science teaching in the early 2000s, its potential has been recently re-imagined by the Faculty of Arts and Design as a resource for diverse community and research arts and science projects. A project is currently underway to discover how to return it to working order, and investigate how this process can be used to retain the tangible aspects of the telescope, reactivate its intangible heritage of experimentation and innovation, and apply it to modern educational and research needs.

Investigators

• Dr Alison Wain (lead CI, UC)
• Duncan Campbell-Wilson (PI - Industry Reference Group)
• Trevor Robinson (CI – UC)
• Sean McHugh (CI – UC)
• Ed Kruzins (CI- UNSW)
• Edwin Peters (CI- UNSW)
• Guifre Molera Calves (CI – UTAS)