# Green Bank

*Observatory*

Green Bank Observatory, West Virginia

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 38.4300° N, 79.8400° W |
| State | US |
| What is done there | radio observatory |
| Dish | 100 m |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

The Green Bank Observatory (previously National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank) is an astronomical observatory located in the National Radio Quiet Zone in Green Bank, West Virginia, U.S. It is the operator of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.
The observatory was established as the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in 1956 and made its first observations in 1958.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=38.43,-79.84
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Observatory
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.