The CSIRO's Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on a former sheep farm in 1961. It was the most advanced radio telescope on the planet at the time, with many innovative features that have since become standard in all large-dish antennas, and it has maintained it’s cutting edge technology and research ever since.

Based in part on an article by John Sarkissian, CSIRO, first published in The Conversation, and on our own research.

Visitors Centre - https://www.csiro.au/en/about/facilities-collections/atnf/parkes-radio-telescope/parkes-observatory-visitors-centre/hours-location

How the Parkes dish works - https://research.csiro.au/pulseatparkes/parkes-radio-telescope/

Parkes shire visitors centre - https://www.parkes.nsw.gov.au/tourism