2.3 Coordination with the space science services

In Australia the radio telescopes at the Paul Wild and Mopra observatories carry out observations in 70-90 GHz frequency range. Coordination has been effected by the notification of an area around the observatories where coordination between the proposed fixed-link and the radio telescopes is required.

In radio astronomy, observations are often on fixed spectral lines and therefore radio telescopes wanting to carry out such observations do not have the latitude to change frequency. For this reason the radio astronomy allocation in the band 84-86 GHz is left as a primary allocation and coordination arrangements will be needed with the fixed service should radio astronomy require use of this band in future.