{"id":2061,"date":"2019-02-21T11:14:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2021-04-25T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T20:15:11","slug":"update-mcdonald-geodetic-observatorys-vlbi-antenna-dish-passes-nasas-site-acceptance-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/update-mcdonald-geodetic-observatorys-vlbi-antenna-dish-passes-nasas-site-acceptance-test\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE &#8211; McDonald Geodetic Observatory&#8217;s VLBI Antenna Dish Passes NASA&#8217;s Site Acceptance Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-SAT.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-SAT.jpg\" alt=\"McDonald Geodetic Observatory's VLBI Antenna Dish\" width=\"880\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-SAT.jpg 880w, https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-SAT-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-SAT-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-SAT-73x55.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">UPDATE: On February 20, 2019, NASA Space Geodesy Project Director Dr. Stephen Merkowitz announced the Agency&#8217;s formal &#8220;site acceptance&#8221; of MGO&#8217;s VLBI radio telescope.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, Times,        serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Extending congratulations to all involved, Dr. Merkowitz stated that, &#8220;I really appreciate all of the hard work everyone put in over the past several weeks (particularly during the Government shutdown!) to get us to this milestone.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related News<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>February 7, 2019: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/update-new-geodetic-observatory-coming-to-ut-austins-mcdonald-observatory\/\">UPDATE:\u00a0New Geodetic Observatory Coming to UT Austin\u2019s McDonald Observatory<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>August 20, 2018: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/new-geodetic-observatory-coming-to-ut-austins-mcdonald-observatory\/\">New Geodetic Observ<em>atory Coming to UT Austin&#8217;s McDonald Observatory<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: On February 20, 2019, NASA Space Geodesy Project Director Dr. Stephen Merkowitz announced the Agency&#8217;s formal &#8220;site acceptance&#8221; of MGO&#8217;s VLBI radio telescope.Extending congratulations to all involved, Dr. Merkowitz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}