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CSIRO Space and Astronomy
CSIRO Space and Astronomy, is a business unit of CSIRO, the Australian government research organisation, and employs about 300 staff. Its Headquarters are located in the Sydney suburb of Marsfield, with other offices in the Perth suburb of Kensington, and at the MRO Support Facility in Geraldton, WA. It is planned to move the Marsfield offices to the new Western Sydney Aerotropolis complex, alongside new University campuses,  associated with the new Western Sydney Airport in about 2025.

CSIRO Space and Astronomy operates the Australia Telescope National Facility, which operates Australia's radio telescopes at the following locations:

CSIRO Space and Astronomy also operates
 * 1) Parkes, NSW, where it operates the 64-m Parkes radio telescope and some smaller antennas, and hosts a significant Visitors Centre.
 * 2) Narrabri, NSW, where it operates the Australia Telescope Compact Array
 * 3) Mopra, near Coonabarabran, NSW, where it operates the Mopra telescope
 * 4) Murchison Radio Observatory, WA, where it operates the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)


 * 1) The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex at Tidbinbilla, near Canberra, ACT, which is part of the NASA Deep Space Network
 * 2) New Norcia Station, near New Norcia, WA, which is deep space ground station for the European Space Agency (ESA), and part of the ESTRACK network.

CSIRO Space and Astronomy also hosts a significant Engineering Team, which builds and maintains the equipment for the ATNF telescopes, as well as building equipment under contract for other major international facilities,\

CSIRO Space and Astronomy also hosts the Science Team, which is the largest radio astronomy research team in Australia, although members of the science team use all available wavelengths and non-electromagnetic messengers to conduct their observational research, and also conduct research in theory and techniques.

History
In 1939, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) established a Radiophysics Advisory Board, resulting in the establishment of the "Radiophysics Laboratory", which was formally a Division of CSIR, in the grounds of Sydney University. The primary goal of the Radiophysics Laboratory was the development of radar. After the end of the Second World War, attention shifted to the study of radio waves from space, using the techniques and skills acquired during the development of radar. When CSIR became the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in 1949, the Radiophysics Laboratory became the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics.

move to Marsfield

split into ATNF and ??