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Start Date:2025-04-25 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--ngVLA |
Description:mtex antenna technology GmbH officially handed over the prototype ngVLA antenna to NRAO at a ceremony held at the VLA site, 25 April 2025.
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Start Date:2025-04-25 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Beasley, Tony
Kadler, Matthias
Murphy, Eric |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--ngVLA |
Description:mtex antenna technology GmbH officially handed over the prototype ngVLA antenna to NRAO at a ceremony held at the VLA site, 25 April 2025. Left to right: NRAO Director Tony Beasley, University of Würzburg Astronomy Chair Matthias Kadler, ngVLA Project Scientist Eric Murphy. [show more]
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Start Date:2025-04-25 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Beasley, Tony |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--ngVLA |
Description:At the ngVLA protype antenna handover, NRAO Director Tony Beasley and Rob Ferl, University of Florida Director of the UF Astraeus Space Institute, signed an agreement to collaborate on a potential Florida site for the ngVLA.
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Start Date:2025-04-25 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Beasley, Tony |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--ngVLA |
Description:mtex antenna technology GmbH officially handed over the prototype ngVLA antenna to NRAO at a ceremony held at the VLA site, 25 April 2025. NRAO Director Tony Beasley holds the prototype antenna key.
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Start Date:2025-04-25 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Beasley, Tony
Stenvers, Lutz
Will, Tobias
Schwab, Klaus |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--ngVLA |
Description:mtex antenna technology GmbH officially handed over the prototype ngVLA antenna to NRAO at a ceremony held at the VLA site, 25 April 2025. Standing left to right: NRAO Director Tony Beasley, mtex CEO Lutz Stenvers, Tobias Will (mechanical engineer and CEO of WK), Klaus Schwab (CEO of Concad, the panel manufacturer). [show more]
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Start Date:1994-08-00 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:Very Large Array (VLA) Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide |
Description:In the welding shop adjoining the antenna barn at the VLA.
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Start Date:1994-08-00 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Serna, Lew |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:Very Large Array (VLA) Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide |
Description:Lew Serna with VLA antenna in the barn.
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Start Date:1994-08-00 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:Very Large Array (VLA) Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide |
Description:VLA antenna in the barn.
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Start Date:1994-08-00 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Hurst, Jesse |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:Very Large Array (VLA) Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide |
Description:Jesse Hurst, with custom rack for some electronics, in the machine shop at the VLA.
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Start Date:1994-08-00 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Hurst, Jesse |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:Very Large Array (VLA) Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide |
Description:Jesse Hurst in the machine shop at the VLA, an automated machining system that was/is used to make VLA components.
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Start Date:1994-08-00 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Stanzione, Guy |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:Very Large Array (VLA) Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide |
Description:Guy Stanzione, engineer at the VLA.
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Start Date:1989 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Gonzalez, Ray |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Subunit:Voyager Project Subunit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Slide Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:The VLA was used with Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network in Goldstone CA to track NASA’s Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in August 1989.
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Start Date:1985-11 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Brundage, William
Logan, Ron |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Subunit:Voyager Project Subunit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Drawing Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:The VLA was used with Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network in Goldstone CA to track NASA’s Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in 1989. NRAO began planning and preparations in 1982, and test phased array observing on Voyager and planets began several years before the encounter as more antennas became outfitted for X-band. NRAO devoted 340 hours of VLA observing time to system tests and reception of Voyager's telemetry, and there were 40 scheduled telemetry passes from 26 April through 28 September 1989. This November 1985 sketch by Socorro's Paul Harden shows Bill Brundage (NRAO) and Ron Logan (JPL) with the test instrument setup at the VLA. [show more]
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Start Date:1981 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Fitzsimmons, Michael
Andrews, Michael
Mighell, Kenneth
Calvert, Robert |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Student Programs Series Unit:Summer Student Programs Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Paper document |
Description:1981 New Mexico summer students: l-r: Michael Fitzsimmons, Michael Andrews, Kenneth Mighell, Robert Calvert.
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Start Date:2000 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Clarke, Tracy
Finley, David
Teng, Stacy
Becker, Kate
Clarke, Melanie
Murphy, Nate
Lubin, Lori
Mellon, Rick
Momjian, Emmanuel
Fassnacht, Chris |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Student Programs Series Unit:Summer Student Programs Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Digital photograph |
Description:2000 New Mexico summer students at the VLA site. Front row L to R: Tracy Clarke (REU Program co-head), Dave Finley, Stacy Teng, Kate Becker, Melanie Clarke (?), unknown, unknown. Back row L to R: Nate Murphy, Lori Lubin (?), Rick Mellon, unknown, unknown, Emmanuel Momjian, Chris Fassnacht (REU program co-head). [show more]
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Start Date:2001 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Finley, David
Boley, Aaron
Donley, Jennifer
Frankel, Marjorie
Kunz, Matthew
Perley, Daniel
Wong, Diane |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Student Programs Series Unit:Summer Student Programs Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Digital photograph |
Description:2001 New Mexico students get an up-close tour of a VLA antenna, with NRAO's Public Information Officer Dave Finley (in the yellow hard hat) as their guide. Students: Daniel Perley (grey shirt in foreground), Matthew Kunz (blue shirt), Marjorie Frankel (blue tank top and white shorts), Diane Wong (green pants), Jennifer Donley (green shirt behind Marjorie), and Aaron Boley (white shirt in background). Others unidentified. [show more]
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Start Date:2001 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Valentine, Virginia
Flynn, Sarah
Raymondson, Daisy
Rosengard, Rebecca |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Student Programs Series Unit:Summer Student Programs Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Digital photograph |
Description:2001 Tucson summer students visit the VLA. Left to right: Virginia Valentine, Sarah Flynn, Daisy Raymondson, Rebecca Rosengard.
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Start Date:2002 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Flynn, Sara
Cull, Selby |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Student Programs Series Unit:Summer Student Programs Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:Digital photograph |
Description:Tucson 2002 summer students Sara Flynn and Selby Cull visit the VLA.
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Start Date:1979-10-16 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:VLA Antenna Assembly building, aerial view
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Start Date:1979-03-12 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:On 30 January 1974, following several years of discussion on transporter requirements and possible designs (both within NRAO and with outside firms), E-Systems Inc. was awarded the contract for design and fabrication of transporter #1 for the VLA. The transporter was crucial to making the VLA a flexible instrument that could operate in multiple configurations. An 11 February 1977 memo states, "We tend to underestimate the complexity of the design and construction of the vehicle, which picks up 220-ton antennas and transports them through 90[deg] intersections. That it works as well as it does is an engineering achievement of the first order...." Transporter #1 was named Hein's Trein, honoring long-time NRAO Associate Director Hein Hvatum. [show more]
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Start Date:1979-03-12 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:VLA antenna
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:Antenna in Assembly Building
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Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:VLA antenna
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Start Date:1966-02 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Wade, Campbell M.
Weber, Robert
Small, Max |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Facilities--VLA--Array Site |
Description:February 1966 on the Plains of St. Augustin, in the general area of the future intersection of the VLA arms. On the left is Cam Wade, and on the right is Max Small, both from NRAO. In the center is Robert Weber, a geologist with the NM Bureau of Mines in Socorro, who was very knowledgeable about the geology of the Plains of San Augustin, and was hugely helpful to the VLA project. Around his neck, Wade has the Finnish forester's compass that he used to check out all the potential VLA sites and to do the initial layout for the array. [show more]
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Start Date:1980-01-18 Location:VLA Site, NM |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) |
Description:VLA antenna 19 crossing Rt. 60. On 18 January 1980, VLA crews moved antenna 5.2 km out the North Arm, thus necessitating the first antenna crossing of Rt. 60. Many turned out to witness the event, including NRAO personnel, news media, and the State Highway Dept., who came to measure traffic disruption and check safety procedures. All went smoothly. [show more]
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