Radio Astronomy Technique Laboratory, the former VLBI Technique Laboratory. It was set up in 1999.

The main objectives of the Radio Astronomy Technique Laboratory:

l   To play a leading role in developing VLBI techniques in China

l   To provide technique support for the VLBI stations of Chinese Academy of Sciences

l   To implement the regular operation of Chinese VLBI Network (CVN) for astronomy, space geodesy and spacecraft tracking

To achieve these goals, we are engaged in:

l   Development of VLBI software & hardware correlator

l   Development of Chinese VLBI Data Acquisition System (CDAS), a type of digital backend used in the VLBI community

l   Development of VLBI scheduling, modeling, correlation, antenna arraying and eVLBI technique

l   Deep space exploration and other applied research based on radio observations