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Beginners usually purchase one of the 3 types of radio telescopes, which cost less than $200 each.

There is no reason to put them in space, (most of) the wavelengths pass through the Earth's atmosphere so there is no real advantage to being in space and it would be expensive. The main advantage in space is you can have much longer baselines and so more resolution.

Radio Telescopes for radio astronomy SPIDER turnkey radio telescopes for sale, designed for radio astronomy, are available in diameters from 2.3 meters to 5 meters, offering various types of antenna tracking systems with high precision and load capacity.

Nonetheless, the basic technology behind radio telescopes is quite simple and with some cheap equipment and simple tools, it's quite easy to build a simple but functional one of your own.

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Interferometry. As you can see, the resolution achieved by a typical radio telescope at typical radio wavelengths is not very detailed. To overcome this difficulty, radio astronomers use multiple radio telescopes at the same time, a technique called interferometry.

In order to make a clearer, or higher resolution, radio image, radio astronomers often combine several smaller telescopes, or receiving dishes, into an array. Together, these dishes can act as one large telescope whose resolution is set by the maximum size of the area.

Radio telescopes have much worse angular resolution (cannot see as much detail) than optical telescopes. For example the best optical telescopes have 0.5 arc seconds resolution from the ground and have 10meter mirrors. A radio telescope with 30 meter collecting plate has 0.5 degree resolution.

These specially-designed telescopes observe the longest wavelengths of light, ranging from 1 millimeter to over 10 meters long.

With a leftover satellite dish and some parts from your local electronic store, you can build an Itty Bitty Radio Telescope to observe the sun. You can put one together using an RV kit, or check Craigslist and Freecycle for people who are just looking to get rid of old equipment.