ASTRA WORLD / ASTRA Compute

Turn recorded observations into scientific data.

Upload recorded observations from one or multiple compatible telescopes to future ASTRA computing infrastructure for calibration, spectral analysis, and computationally intensive correlation.

In development
Conceptual processing pipeline
  1. Recorded data
  2. Calibration
  3. Time alignment
  4. Correlation
  5. Interferometric data
  6. Scientific visualisation

Precision starts at the station.

Accurate interferometry depends on timing references, sample clocks, calibration, station positions, and signal-path characterisation. ASTRA Compute will provide the processing and correlation infrastructure for compatible recordings. Cloud computing supports these workflows; it does not replace precise hardware timing.

Advanced processing aims to shorten turnaround and refine delay, clock-drift, and phase estimates where the recorded data support it.

Read NRAO’s guide to interferometry ↗
On the roadmap

What to look forward to

We’re building this service for a future release. This page is a preview of the planned experience.