... ATNF Home . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... During the descent and for the three hours that the probe continued transmitting after it landed on the surface, the ATNF radio telescopes - Parkes, the Compact Array and Mopra, along with the University of Tasmania's telescopes in Hobart and Ceduna and 12 other telescopes in the USA, China and Japan were used to track the trajectory of the descent using the technique of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)...