The Australia Telescope National Facility

The Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) is owned and operated by Australia's national science agency, CSIRO. The ATNF supports research in radio astronomy and is used by the international astronomy community. It also supports space-related activities, such as spacecraft tracking and communication, bistatic interplanetary radar and passive radar. CSIRO's engineering technologies group develops radio astronomy receivers, digital signal processing systems and software to keep ATNF telescopes at the cutting edge and for observatories around the world.