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VIRAC, Ventspils Starptautiskais Radioastronomijas Centrs or the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy
Radio astronomy

Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies Astronomical object at radio frequency. The initial detection of radio waves from an astronomical object was made in the 1930s, but subsequent advances have identified a number of different sources of radio emission....
 Centre is an ex-Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 installation 30 km north of Ventspils
Ventspils

Ventspils is a city in northwestern Latvia in the Kurzeme region of Latvia, the sixth largest city in the country. As of 2006, Ventspils had a population of 43,806....
, Latvia
Latvia

Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....
, on the coast of the Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
. VIRAC was taken over by the Latvian Academy of Sciences
Latvian Academy of Sciences

The Academy of Sciences is the official Academy of Sciences of Latvia and is an association of the country's foremost scientists. It is located in Riga....
 after the withdrawal of the Soviet Army
Red Army

The Red Army was the armed force first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and, in 1922, became the army of the Soviet Union....
 in 1994 after Latvia regained independence.

In its current configuration it consists of a 32-metre, fully steerable parabolic
Parabola

In mathematics, the parabola is a conic section, the intersection of a right circular conical surface and a plane parallel to a generating straight line of that surface....
, centimetre-wave range antenna
Radio telescope

A radio telescope is a form of Directional antennae radio Antenna used in radio astronomy and in tracking and collecting data from satellites and space probes....
 (RT-32) and a 16-metre diameter antenna (RT-16).






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VIRAC, Ventspils Starptautiskais Radioastronomijas Centrs or the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy
Radio astronomy

Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies Astronomical object at radio frequency. The initial detection of radio waves from an astronomical object was made in the 1930s, but subsequent advances have identified a number of different sources of radio emission....
 Centre is an ex-Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 installation 30 km north of Ventspils
Ventspils

Ventspils is a city in northwestern Latvia in the Kurzeme region of Latvia, the sixth largest city in the country. As of 2006, Ventspils had a population of 43,806....
, Latvia
Latvia

Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....
, on the coast of the Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
. VIRAC was taken over by the Latvian Academy of Sciences
Latvian Academy of Sciences

The Academy of Sciences is the official Academy of Sciences of Latvia and is an association of the country's foremost scientists. It is located in Riga....
 after the withdrawal of the Soviet Army
Red Army

The Red Army was the armed force first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and, in 1922, became the army of the Soviet Union....
 in 1994 after Latvia regained independence.

In its current configuration it consists of a 32-metre, fully steerable parabolic
Parabola

In mathematics, the parabola is a conic section, the intersection of a right circular conical surface and a plane parallel to a generating straight line of that surface....
, centimetre-wave range antenna
Radio telescope

A radio telescope is a form of Directional antennae radio Antenna used in radio astronomy and in tracking and collecting data from satellites and space probes....
 (RT-32) and a 16-metre diameter antenna (RT-16). RT-32 is one of the most perfect radio telescope
Radio telescope

A radio telescope is a form of Directional antennae radio Antenna used in radio astronomy and in tracking and collecting data from satellites and space probes....
s in the world. It was built by the Russian Navy
Russian Navy

The Russian Navy or VMF is the Navy of the Russian Armed Forces. The international designation of Russian naval vessels is "RFS" - "Russian Federation Ship"....
 with an apparently unlimited budget.

The installation was secret until 1993, and it was the intervention of the international radio astronomy community that prevented the destruction of the facility by the Russian Army during its evacuation. Since 1994, the radiotelescopes have been repaired, as they were sabotaged by the departing army.

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