The engineer (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Manchester University has secured funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to keep the renowned Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire operational.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
SENIOR scientists and academics are celebrating securing the long-term survival of Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
SENIOR scientists and academics are celebrating securing the long-term survival of Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
JODRELL Bank has been saved thanks to a new agreement between the funding council and the cutting edge Cheshire facility.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
JODRELL Bank has been saved thanks to a new agreement between the funding council and the cutting edge Cheshire facility.
Astronomy Blog (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
When the STFC announced that funding for MERLIN/e-MERLIN might be axed, and Jodrell Bank Observatory said that that could lead to closure of the observatory, I don't think anyone quite expected the public outcry. Local media in Cheshire and Manchester took it upon themselves to campaign to save the Observatory using the 76-m Lovell Telescope as the focal point. The Manchester Evening News started a...
Times Online - Guest contributors (Free subscription) | 30/03/2008
Jodrell Bank may have to be shut down. The Cheshire observatory sprang to fame in 1957 as having the only radiotelescope in the West capable of monitoring the Soviet Union's Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. Since then, Jodrell Bank has studied quasars, pulsars and gravitational lenses, and it is now such an icon that the Government may nominate it as a World Heritage Site.
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 14/03/2008
By Ian Herbert There is a hidden tragedy about the threat to the future of Cheshire's Jodrell Bank observatory. It comes at the very time that the Manchester University establishment had been looking at major development plans for the site's...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
It's not long after noon at Jodrell Bank; a warning siren shrieks, cutting through the white Cheshire sky. Outside the high windows of the control room, the Lovell Telescope begins to move – almost imperceptibly at first. It is 90 metres high, nearly 80 metres across and weighs roughly 3,200 tonnes, and yet as it begins to turn, the great bowl to tip, it is, extraordinarily, nearly completely silent....
Daily Mail online | Home (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Astronomers are astonished as the world-famous radio telescope in Cheshire, born out of the radar experiments of World War II, could be closed to save the Government £2.7million a year.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
CHANGING a car wheel when you have a puncture can be tricky, but putting a new one on a 3,000-ton telescope would be beyond most of us. So when a steel wheel cracked on the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire, engineers needed more than just a jack and a brace to replace it.
