# Jodrell Bank

*Observatory*

Jodrell Bank Observatory, Lovell Telescope

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| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 53.2400° N, 2.3100° W |
| State | UK |
| What is done there | radio observatory |
| Dish | 76 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

Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, hosts a number of radio telescopes as part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. The observatory was established in 1945 by Bernard Lovell, a radio astronomer at the university, to investigate cosmic rays after his work on radar in the Second World War.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=53.24,-2.31
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodrell_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.