Summit Public Schools: SHS Senior Builds Radio Telescope

Press release from the Summit Public Schools:

2021-05-20

SHS Senior Builds Radio Telescope

Selvin, a senior at Summit High School, constructed a radio telescope in the science elective course "Design Projects in Science and Engineering".

The telescope structure and electronics were funded with a PTO grant. The telescope looks for radio waves at 1420.4 MHz, the strongest signals coming from the center of the Milky Way. Selvin hopes to determine a velocity curve for our galaxy, and measure Earth's velocity through space.

This press release was produced by the Summit Public Schools. The views expressed here are the author’s own.