# Very Large Array

*Observatory*

Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, New Mexico

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| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 34.0800° N, 107.6200° W |
| State | US |
| What is done there | radio observatory |
| 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 Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is a centimeter-wavelength radio astronomy observatory in the southwestern United States built in the 1970s. It lies in central New Mexico on the Plains of San Agustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, approximately 50 miles (80 km) west of Socorro.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=34.08,-107.62
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Array
- 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.