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STARGATE—''Spacecraft Tracking and Astronomical Research into Gigahertz Astrophysical Transient Emission''—is a radio-frequency (RF) technology facility currently under development in south Texas. The facility is intended to provide students and faculty access to RF technologies widely used in spaceflight operations, and will include satellite and spacecraft tracking. ==History== The Spacecraft Tracking and Astronomical Research into Gigahertz Astrophysical Transient Emission facility was proposed in 2012 by Fredrick (Rick) Jenet, director of the Center for Advanced Radio Astronomy (CARA) and an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Texas-Brownsville. Initial funding included in seed money provided by the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation in October 2012, as part of a package to increase the likelihood of attracting SpaceX to build a launch site in the area.〔 In 2014, following the announcement of the SpaceX orbital launch facility being built near Boca Chica Beach, the Brownsville Economic Development Council (BEDC) purchased several lots in Boca Chica Village totaling approximately from the SpaceX launch site and renamed it as the STARGATE subdivision. The land will be used for the STARGATE project including the construction of a tracking center.〔 〕 Construction bids for a dual-channel fiber optic link between UT Brownsville and the STARGATE/SpaceX sites at Boca Chica went out in early March 2015.〔 In mid-2015, the University of Texas at Brownsville merged with another university to become the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. STARGATE contracts and administration thus moved to the new university administrative structure. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「STARGATE」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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